INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The United States State Department suspended its refugee program Tuesday night, stopping all refugee flights into the United States, under
direction of President Donald Trump&& s executive order, however the suspension does not apply to Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders.The
United States State Department said in a memo to resettlement partners that the flights of refugees scheduled to take a trip to the United
States have actually been cancelled, CNN reported.Approximately 10,000 refugees had actually travel reserved, which is now canceled
They include residents of Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Syria and Burma.There are more than 1,000 Afghan
refugees in Doha, CNN mentioned an US federal government authorities as stating, and several thousand, up to as many as 10,000, in Pakistan
There are other Afghan refugees in && many, lots of countries around the world & hellip; whose cases will now simply be stopped,& & the
main said.These consist of those who are not SIV holders, according to the official.While the US State Department has made it clear that the
suspension does not apply to SIV holders, Trump&& s order has actually sparked fears that he might stop this program as well, according to
Kim Staffieri, executive director of the Association of Wartime Allies, a group that assists Afghans and Iraqis transplant in the United
States.The post SIV holders not included in United States suspension of refugee program first appeared on Ariana News.
