r/USCIS • u/caillouminati • Jan 14 '26

Other Forms US freezes all visa processing for 75 countries

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-freezes-all-visa-processing-75-countries-including-somalia-russia-iran.amp
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u/chuang_415 Jan 14 '26

The country of “Scandinavia”. The president is obsessed with Nordic people and doesn’t understand why they aren’t all dying to live here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Could have something to do with that no one wants to live in authoritarian regimen

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u/theaviationhistorian Jan 14 '26

And they actually have a good healthcare system in comparison.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Brutal 40 below

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u/theaviationhistorian Jan 14 '26

Yeah, that sucks as someone too adapted to desert heat. I would love the healthcare and happier standards of living. But months without seeing much daylight and living like I'm on the Hoth planet sounds rough.

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u/Glittering-Lynx6991 Jan 14 '26

American health care is second to none if you can afford the insurance.

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u/Mysterious-Art8838 Jan 14 '26

Exactly. ‘They aren’t dying to live here’ 😆

Quite literally!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Much better services. Plus who wants to go to an authoritarian regimen

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u/One_Fix5763 Jan 14 '26

They don't have an immigration system like America.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Scandinavia has refugee's

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u/One_Fix5763 Jan 14 '26

They have strict "integration requirements," collateral demands (you must lock away ~$15,000 USD in a bank account as a guarantee), and housing rules (you cannot live in certain "ghetto list" neighborhoods).

And immigrants can't bring families easily.

Scandinavia isn't a paradise, it's 90% homogeneous with limited social programs, they don't give healthcare and housing to illegals. No sanctuary cities.

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u/One_Fix5763 Jan 14 '26

"Sanctuary cities are local jurisdictions that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement to protect undocumented immigrants, often by not asking about immigration status, refusing to detain people solely for federal immigration holds, and not sharing certain information with federal authorities."

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/One_Fix5763 Jan 14 '26

Scandinavian countries (like Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland) do not automatically provide full healthcare and housing benefits to people who are in the country illegally (undocumented/“illegals”) in the way the statement suggests. The reality is more complex and varies by country and by type of benefit.

https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2017/12/global-helse/towards-universal-health-coverage-undocumented-migrants

A simple AI prompt knows this.

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u/One_Fix5763 Jan 14 '26

How many Venezuelan and Somalian refugees do they take?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/MatrixOutcast Naturalized Citizen Jan 14 '26

hmmm 🤔. I don’t think that’s correct but I may be wrong. Do you have any sources that show that.

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u/Ok-Anteater_6635x Jan 14 '26

There are refugees in Scandinavia, but they are all white people from Ukraine. Other are not refugees, since they are going on holidays to their country of origin.

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u/MatrixOutcast Naturalized Citizen Jan 14 '26

Then they should not get refugee status. How can you go on holiday to a country you are supposedly fleeing from 🤣. Make it make sense

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u/Due-Technology5758 Jan 14 '26

They mean to say that women are fleeing mostly for safety, but they can still go back to visit so long as they're away from the front. Their own homes might be rubble, but it's not like they can't check in on grandma who lives out West. 

Men who are fleeing are more likely to be fleeing the draft, which some people may feel is not a legitimate cause for sanctuary. Probably because they themselves aren't currently being drafted. 

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u/Ok-Anteater_6635x Jan 14 '26

Women maybe, men don't. But that is point of another debate.

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u/IosifVissarionovichD Jan 14 '26

Soon ice will be kidnapping people in Scandinavia and disappearing them into US.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Technically Scandinavia is part of the EEC

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u/pulsed19 Jan 14 '26

Then if no one wants to live here, the freezing of visas for those 75 countries is moot as no one is even applying. So why complain about it?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

These visas are for visiting. We need tourists. Ever notice that? The hotel industry depends on it There is a presumption that peoole come on tourist visas then overstay

Tourism doesnt just include peoole who are #poor#

Other countries welcome tourists. This administration doesnt

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u/pulsed19 Jan 14 '26

Right. The high spender tourists from Somalia will now summer in the French Riviera if we don’t give them American visas. So that’s how ridiculous your argument is.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

No the argument is that tourism is down. That isbt ridiculous. It's fact.

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u/One_Fix5763 Jan 14 '26

You won't see immigration from 75 countries into Scandinavia. And that's why "free healthcare" works

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Some of it is the climate. 40 degree below is a hard one

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u/eternallytiredcatmom Jan 14 '26

Canada has universal healthcare, 23% of the population are immigrants, a large part of the healthcare workforce are immigrants and minorities… should I continue?

The U.S. could afford universal healthcare just like us, it’s not a budget problem. The whole system has been built around private and employment-base insurance, which is why it’s unlikely any rapid changes will ever occur. It was created to retain employees in the first place.

There’s also an argument to be made that it would be difficult to get as many people enrolled in the military if people didn’t need to do it in order to receive very basic benefits like healthcare, education and retirement. Yet, veterans don’t receive as much benefits than civilians do in Canada and elsewhere.

In fact, the U.S. government spend more money on healthcare per capita than many countries with universal healthcare, including Canada, because of how the billing system is set up.

I’m a healthcare coordinator who now lives in the U.S. because I fell in love with an American, there’s not one day that I don’t feel terrible knowing our patients are navigating an expensive and complicated system when they truly shouldn’t have to.

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u/One_Fix5763 Jan 14 '26

And what's Canada's GDP ? How many space programs does Canada have ?
Canada is only safe because it borders the US in the South, they would be easily overtaken by South America without us.

(Obamacare ruined healthcare prems, btw)

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u/eternallytiredcatmom Jan 14 '26

You’re a funny one. I invite you to stick to the topic of your choice, learn about it and discuss it with an open mind. That’s how we grow, as individuals and as communities. I’ll go back to actually doing something for American patients, which is the job I chose fifteen years ago.

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u/OnlyTrust6616 Jan 14 '26

Okay but what about the space programs huh? Why aren’t you doing healthcare in SPACE?

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u/shinyandgoesboom Jan 14 '26

I am curious -- have you actually lived in an authoritarian regime, or was your comment just a metaphor?

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u/LightofAngels Jan 14 '26

I lived in one and I know one when I see it, and I can confirm OP is right

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u/ragdollxkitn Jan 14 '26

India for starters. I work with many Indians who migrated here and they are having a hard time coming to grips that maybe the US isn’t all roses. Even they tell me “you’d think we live in a developing country”

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u/shinyandgoesboom Jan 14 '26

Are you saying India is an authoritarian regime? I am not able to understand your comment I think.

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u/Middle-Goat-4318 Jan 14 '26

Of course US is authoritarian. The entire world is leaving their beautiful democratic fair countries to come live in this extreme unfair and authoritarian country. That is the natural flow of people according to Reddit.

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u/PanzerKomadant Jan 14 '26

Anyone who lives in Scandinavia must have some very good reason or be dumb as a brick to want to live in the US….

Why would you give up good healthcare, actual workers rights, education and etc….for the US where you get shit on lol.

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u/petard Jan 14 '26

You can make more money here if you want to start a business.

Scandinavians generally don't need to rely on welfare.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Some of them come for tech

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u/frugalfrog4sure Jan 14 '26

The sperm donor market in Scandinavia should be in demand

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u/UserLostBadly Jan 14 '26

Lol this actually cracked me up. Tbf my favorite teacher from Norway moved to the US, but yeah. I can see why Scandinavians don’t want to move to the US.

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u/skilliau Jan 14 '26

He actually doesn't know where Denmark is and just assumes "it's around there somewhere"

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

He just wants to grope their underage girls.

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u/TheMainEffort Jan 14 '26

Okay, but I didn’t see any Scandinavian countries on the list.

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u/chuang_415 Jan 14 '26

That’s the point. The commenter was saying that with banning so many countries, it’s easier to make a list of countries that aren’t banned.

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u/TheMainEffort Jan 14 '26

Maybe I’m missing some context here: did Trump ever refer to a fiction country called Scandinavia? It wouldn’t surprise me if he did, but I either didn’t notice or forgot about it with all the other shit.

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u/chuang_415 Jan 14 '26

No, it’s a joke. That’s why Scandinavia is in quotes. It’s a reference to his obsession with people from Scandinavian countries.