Harare, August 20 (Reuters) – The United States has ceased to process most of the Vimbabwe visa until the next warning, his Embassy in Harare’s capital said on Wednesday, quoting unspecified concerns with the government.
“We have stopped routine visa services in Harare while we are concerned with the fears of Zimbabwe,” the embassy said in a post on X. He said that this step was not a ban on travel and that the current visa would remain valid.
The government of the South African country did not answer immediately to the request for comment.
According to the announcement on the website of the US Foreign Ministry, which stated that it applied to all visa services, with the exception of most diplomatic and official visa.
US President Donald Trump’s administration reduced travel from a number of African countries and said it was trying to prevent excessive unloading and abuse of visas.
According to the US Department of Internal Security, Zimbabwe had exceeded the visa in 2023 in 2023.
From this week, the US will require applicants for Visa from Zambia and Malawi to pay bonds up to $ 15,000 for some visitor. Trump’s administration also suspended visa processing in Niger.
Resident Harare Angella Chirombo said her eighteen -year -old son had won a scholarship for a bachelor’s degree at a Michigan State University and waited for an interview with a visa when the pause hit.
“He was supposed to be at school. I paid for everything else and waited for a visa to buy tickets,” she told Reuters.
She said other parents were considering reservation of interviews at other US embassies in South Africa, but that she couldn’t travel.
“Now they say we can go to Zambia and Namibia. Now I don’t even have the money and I don’t know where to get this money. It’s so many students who have been influenced.”
(Reportage Chris Muronzi and Nellie Peyton; Editing Mark Heinrich)
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