{"id":225967,"date":"2026-01-14T21:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=225967"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:36:57","slug":"us-freezes-immigrant-visa-processing-for-75-countries-including-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/225967\/","title":{"rendered":"US freezes immigrant visa processing for 75 countries, including Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US Department of State is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries in an effort to crack down on applicants deemed likely to become a public charge, Fox News<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

A State Department memo directs consular officers to refuse visas under existing law while the department reassesses screening and vetting procedures.<\/p>\n

The list includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, among others.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US Department of State is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries in an effort to crack down on applicants deemed likely to become a public charge, Fox News writes. A State Department memo directs consular officers to refuse visas under existing law while the department reassesses screening and vetting procedures. The list includes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":225717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225968,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225967\/revisions\/225968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}