US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the reexamination of all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern”. The director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Joe Edlow indicated that the examination will be “rigorous”.
The announcement comes shortly after the Department of Homeland Security said earlier that it is reviewing all asylum cases approved by the Biden administration.
“At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern,” Joe Edlow wrote in a post on X.
According to broadcaster CNN, the 19 countries were designated as such in a June presidential proclamation.
The 19 countries are: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.