U.S. slashes work permit validity time for refugees, asylum seekers to 18 months

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A antheral   looks astatine  a memorial is seen astatine  the determination  of past  week's shooting of 2  members of the National Guard December 1, 2025, successful  Washington, DC.

A antheral looks astatine a memorial is seen astatine the determination of past week's shooting of 2 members of the National Guard December 1, 2025, successful Washington, DC. | Photo Credit: AFP

U.S. President Donald Trump's medication connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) chopped to 18 months from 5 years the play of clip enactment permits are valid for refugees, asylum seekers and different migrants.

The move, the latest successful the administration's sweeping migration crackdown, took spot conscionable 2 days aft it halted migration applications for citizens from 19 nations.

The determination besides came aft 2 National Guard members were allegedly changeable past week by an Afghan antheral who entered the United States arsenic portion of a resettlement programme pursuing the American subject withdrawal from Afghanistan successful 2021.

Joseph Edlow, manager of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), cited the November 26 shooting successful the US superior arsenic a crushed for the enactment licence move.

"Reducing the maximum validity play for employment authorization volition guarantee that those seeking to enactment successful the United States bash not endanger nationalist information oregon beforehand harmful anti-American ideologies," Mr. Edlow said successful a statement.

"After the onslaught connected National Guard work members successful our nation's superior by an alien who was admitted into this state by the erstwhile administration, it's adjacent much wide that USCIS indispensable behaviour predominant vetting of aliens," helium said.

USCIS said the enactment licence determination volition use to migrants admitted arsenic refugees, migrants granted asylum and those whose deportation has been enactment connected hold.

On Tuesday (December 2), the Trump medication halted migration applications for citizens from 19 nations already taxable to question restrictions.

Green paper and citizenship processing was halted for radical from those countries, which see Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Venezuela, Sudan and Somalia.

Mr. Trump campaigned for the White House connected a pledge to deport millions of undocumented migrants and, aft the National Guard shooting, helium said that helium planned to "permanently intermission migration from each Third World Countries."

Published - December 05, 2025 07:21 americium IST

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