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The US has suspended almost all visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders. This follows recent visa restrictions on Gazans and Palestinian officials. The move is linked to planned Palestinian state recognitions by some US allies.
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U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say By Edward WongAdam RasgonNatan Odenheimer and Hamed Aleaziz Aug. 31, 2025 The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials. The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. Last week, the State Department also said it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York next month. The more sweeping measures, laid out in an Aug. 18 cable sent by State Department headquarters to all U.S. embassies and consulates, would also prevent many Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Palestinian diaspora from entering the United States on various types of nonimmigrant visas, according to four U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discu...
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