The United States will no longer accept refugees this year.

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The State Department announced on Wednesday, 12 July, that the country had already met the limit on accepting refugees in 50 thousands of people in the fiscal year.

Every year the limit is set by the president. President Obama increased it from 85000 in 2016 to 110 000 this year.

But President Trump, after his inauguration, lowered him to an 50. 000 people within his decreebanning travel from six Muslim countries for 90 days and suspending refugees for 120 days.

Decree still permits some refugees from six Muslim countries enter the country. because of solutions The US Supreme Court, those who have "related" relations with the United States, will still be allowed into the country.

However, what qualifies as a “kinship” relationship has become the subject of litigation.

New criteria suggest that citizens of Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Yemen and Iran in order to obtain a visa, will have to prove that their close relatives - parents, spouse, children, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother or sister - live in the USA .

In this case, grandmothers, grandfathers, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nephews, and cousins ​​are not considered close relatives.

Refugee resettlement agencies appealed to the court to expand the qualifications of their relatives.

They say that because of this administration policy, thousands of immigrants who do not have a family in the country, but have already been tested by the United States, may be left with nothing.

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