But then-President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several Muslim-majority countries, issued in January 2017, meant Ayman’s visa application was delayed indefinitely. A year-long HuffPost investigation found hundreds of cases of Trump’s ban changing the lives of Muslims, both inside the United States and around the world. But over the last year, HuffPost collected 874 stories of people who, like Saleh, are still feeling the impact of Trump’s travel ban five years later. But during her appointment, Abbasnezhad said embassy staff told her they could not grant her the visa due to Trump’s travel ban. He met Yemeni families who had been waiting on American visas in Djibouti for more than a year.

Source: Huffington Post January 25, 2022 13:03 UTC