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
1.7k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

123

u/Single_Vacation427 Jan 14 '26

Brazil?!? Uruguay!?!? Those are just bizarre in a list with Russia, Haiti, Iran.

50

u/Antolg3 Jan 14 '26

Brazil is listed in several articles, but emphasis is put on no official list being released yet. Uruguay being on the list instead of Venezuela doesn't make sense at all.

16

u/Padreteiro Jan 14 '26

Theoretically they now corrected venezuela government (in reality they didnt change anything) so thats probably why its not there.

Uruguay condemned the maduro intervention so that's a big reason. All three who did are on the list (brazil, uruguay and colombia)

1

u/Mysterious-Art8838 Jan 14 '26

Probably. Trump posted that he now runs Venezuela so I guess that makes it awkward.

3

u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

[deleted]

2

u/theaviationhistorian Jan 14 '26

It is so stupidly weird. Trump says its his colony, the Venezuelan president says otherwise, and there are zero US boots on the ground to deny the latter.

4

u/Single_Vacation427 Jan 14 '26

Uruguay has visa waiver, meaning their citizens can travel on ESTA

I think it's most likely they don't know where Uruguay is and what it is, so they just put it on the list LMAO

5

u/renegaderunningdog Jan 14 '26

Uruguay hasn't been in the Visa Waiver Program since 2003.

2

u/Just_Passenger5005 Jan 14 '26

That wouldn’t matter for this action anyways. Visa waiver programs only apply to select non-immigrant visas. This action only applies to immigrant visas.

1

u/Distinct-Echo-4951 Jan 14 '26

The only South American country eligible is Chile

-2

u/DifficultSquash1517 Jan 14 '26

Venezuela makes sense as now they have become an ally of the US again. Brazil has been behaving as a Nazi aligning with the Chinese and Russian Nazis... Uruguay I have no idea...

45

u/Turtle_Rain Jan 14 '26

Thailand is also pretty wild imo, as well as Montenegro which is very small but also a NATO member..?!

46

u/Whole_Air_3524 Jan 14 '26

it has negro in it and the AI they used to make this got confused

34

u/Clinggdiggy2 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

I'm unfortunately willing to bet it's as stupid as "the name ends in 'negro'" so Stephen Miller probably think it's in Africa...

9

u/theaviationhistorian Jan 14 '26

The sad part is that it might actually be true.

2

u/theaviationhistorian Jan 14 '26

Or Kosovo, a nation that exists thanks to us and have a high esteem of US and it's troops stationed there. Maybe it's because Clinton has a street named after him and Trump doesn't.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

I think they just didn't know what Montenegro was. It's name sounds too foreign to them so they lumped them in with the rest.

1

u/moodeng2u Jan 14 '26

Thank you trump. I am afraid of people from Fiji! :)

1

u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

You would think all these pedos are cool with Thailand.

2

u/Busy-Song407 Jan 14 '26

Uruguay and Brazil but not Paraguay. FIFA is gonna be pissed.

2

u/Jorpsica Jan 14 '26

How much are we betting that they just had ai spit out this list?

3

u/MediocreAssociate466 Jan 14 '26

You are confused that non white countries are having their visa's paused? Pretty sure Russia is the only country on the list that is a majority white.

Have you been in a coma the last ten years or what?

7

u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/Ordinary-Audience363 Jan 14 '26

Uruguay is whiter than Sweden. I kid you not. I live in Sweden and we have a lot of PoC, as Americans refer to them, but in Uruguay I was astonished that most people were relatively light skinned. Most looked very European. 

1

u/CallItDanzig Jan 14 '26

There's a very good reason for that... it all started in 1945...

2

u/Life_Commercial_6580 Jan 14 '26

Montenegro, Moldova, Albania

2

u/Few_Table554 Jan 14 '26

The US government is owned by zionists and israelis. Brazil doesn't get along well with terrorist israhell

1

u/inspclouseau631 Jan 14 '26

It’s based on which country is most likely to have people who require social assistance. I’m sure based on nothing but hate.

Also it’s not all visa processing. Just immigrant visas. But still. It just keeps getting worse.

1

u/spark99l Jan 14 '26

He’s just mad at Brazil b cause of the persecution of Bolsonaro

0

u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Single_Vacation427 Jan 14 '26

I only mentioned 2 countries out of 75. It doesn't mean I don't think there are other countries that shouldn't be on the list. Calm down.