{"id":90627,"date":"2025-11-08T10:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=90627"},"modified":"2025-11-08T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:41:29","slug":"state-department-tightens-us-visa-and-green-card-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/state-department-tightens-us-visa-and-green-card-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department tightens US visa and green card rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trump-can-resolve-kashmir-issue-says-us-state-department\/\">U.S. State Department<\/a> has issued new guidelines that could deny foreign nationals who have certain chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes or obesity, a U.S. visa or permanent residency (green card).<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines were issued by the Trump administration and have been sent to U.S. embassies and consulates around the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new State Department guidelines, visa officers can now consider applicants\u2019 heart, respiratory, neurological, mental health, and metabolic diseases (such as diabetes) as possible reasons for visa denial.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines state that if an applicant has a medical condition that is expensive to treat and may require government financial assistance in the future, a visa may be denied on that basis.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are also instructed to look at whether the applicant can afford to pay for their own medical expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines have been extended to the applicant\u2019s family members. Visa officers have been told to consider whether dependents have a chronic illness or disability that could affect the applicant\u2019s ability to perform or be financially self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, U.S. visa applications have only been screened for communicable diseases, vaccinations, and specific aspects of mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules also include non-communicable but long-term illnesses, giving non-medically trained visa officers more discretion and raising concerns that decisions could be based on personal or cultural bias.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants for a US visa will still have to undergo a medical examination by an embassy-approved physician, which includes screening for infectious diseases, mental health, drug abuse, and vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>However, under the new guidelines, the financial burden of chronic diseases and their long-term treatment has now also been made an important part of the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The U.S. State Department has issued new guidelines that could deny foreign nationals who have certain chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes or obesity, a U.S. visa or permanent residency (green card). The guidelines were issued by the Trump administration and have been sent to U.S. embassies and consulates around the world. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32217],"class_list":["post-90627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-us-visa-and-green-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90628,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627\/revisions\/90628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}