{"id":328820,"date":"2026-08-24T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328820\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:22:55","slug":"manhattan-federal-judge-strikes-down-trump-admin-policy-that-banned-issuing-visas-to-people-from-75-countries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328820\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan federal judge strikes down Trump admin policy that banned issuing visas to people from 75 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/media.nilc.org\/2026\/04\/CLINIC-v-Rubio-partial-MSJ-decision-08-21-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ruled<\/a> the Trump administration was not allowed to implement a blanket ban on issuing visas to people from 75 countries, striking down a policy that left thousands of people from 40% of the world\u2019s nations in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Jeanette Vargas declared Friday that the U.S. Department of State overstepped its authority and acted \u201ccontrary to law\u201d when it announced it would suspend issuing visas to people from 75 countries this past January on the unfounded determination that immigrants from those countries pose a high risk of becoming a \u201cpublic charge,\u201d or are highly likely to use welfare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/law\/nyc-judge-strike-down-trump-visa-ban\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tManhattan federal judge strikes down Trump admin policy that banned issuing visas to people from 75 countries &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan federal judge ruled the Trump administration was not allowed to implement a blanket ban on issuing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2301,2710,3782,75,84,83,7299,9,24,12,63,613,15362,1069,655],"class_list":["post-328820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-immigration","tag-law","tag-legal-aid-society","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-nation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-southern-district-of-new-york","tag-trump","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}