America: A second chance for rejected visas from banned countries due to Trump's decision

 The US State Department said that most of those who applied for US visas were rejected because of Trump's decision to ban entry to citizens of 13 countries, most of them Muslim-majority or African countries, who can seek to reconsider their applications or file new applications.

President Joe Biden canceled his predecessor Donald Trump's decision to ban Muslims on January 20, his first day in office, describing it as a "stain on our national conscience."

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that those who applied for visas and were rejected before January 20, 2020, must file new applications and pay their fees, adding that those who were rejected on January 20, 2020 or later can file a petition for reconsideration. In their applications without the need to re-apply or pay additional fees.

According to State Department data, about 40,000 people have been prevented from entering the United States under the ban since December 2017, after the US Supreme Court approved an amended version of the original travel ban.

The Trump administration added some countries and removed others from the ban list, and in the last period of his presidency the list included Myanmar, Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Nigeria, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela and Yemen.

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