{"id":15597,"date":"2025-12-10T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/?p=15597"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:18:20","slug":"uscis-pauses-adjudications-for-19-countries-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/2025\/12\/10\/uscis-pauses-adjudications-for-19-countries-of-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Pauses Adjudications for 19 Countries of Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2, 2025 &#8211; Citing national security concerns following the recent attack in DC, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/policy-alerts\/PM-602-0192-PendingApplicationsHighRiskCountries-20251202.pdf\" data-name=\"USCIS memo\" data-type=\"url\">USCIS memo<\/a>\u00a0indicated it will pause adjudicating benefit applications for individuals from the 19 countries listed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/06\/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats\/\" data-name=\"Presidential Proclamation 10949\" data-type=\"url\">Presidential Proclamation 10949<\/a>\u00a0while it conducts a review. USCIS has stated that this may apply to both immigrant and nonimmigrant benefit requests and could include re-review of some previously approved cases. It is not yet clear how this may affect members of our international community, but we will share updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>For additional guidance from Vanderbilt&#8217;s immigration counsel, please see <u><a id=\"OWA824879a8-8140-1360-ffa4-50025040d820\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Femma-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ft2ngb%2F84bf203f68190f3cd347e25cef5ab1b4%2FImmigration_Insights_-_Pause_and_Review_of_Immigration_Benefits_for_Nationals_of_High-Risk_Countries_and_All_Pending_Asylum_Cases.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjulie.wilbers%40vanderbilt.edu%7C483cbb5b08714319a82608de3e49c101%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C639016683652000436%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=KSR2%2BNNsK4MAalo1nSMOjHaSJKkHDalnr7oW7gKjugI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">this detailed summary.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2, 2025 &#8211; Citing national security concerns following the recent attack in DC, a USCIS memo\u00a0indicated it will pause adjudicating benefit applications for individuals from the 19 countries listed in the\u00a0Presidential Proclamation 10949\u00a0while it conducts a review. USCIS has stated that this may apply to both immigrant and nonimmigrant benefit requests and could include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}