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Pause affects virtually all immigration processes for 19 “high-risk” countries.

All pending immigration benefits for affected individuals are under processing hold.

4.3 million immigrants may experience prolonged delays under new policies.

The Trump administration has paused virtually all immigration applications — including green card processing and U.S. citizenship cases — for immigrants from 19 non-European countries the government labels “high-risk.”

The move grows out of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo issued Dec. 2 that orders officers to “stop final adjudication on all cases” involving people from those 19 countries and to put a hold on citizenship oath ceremonies for those applicants, CBS News reported .

USCIS is tying the pause to national sec

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