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The Trump administration has indefinitely paused immigration applications from citizens of 19 travel-ban nations, including green card and naturalization requests.

The freeze extends to immigrants already in the U.S., with approved applications now subject to comprehensive re-review and potential referral to enforcement.

USCIS cited a Thanksgiving Week shooting by an Afghan national near the White House as justification for the heightened scrutiny.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications such as requests for green cards for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year, as part of sweeping immigration changes in the wake of t

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