US suspends visas from Myanmar, Laos following refusal to take back deported citizens

By Anna Giaritelli

Published July 10, 2018 5:30pm ET

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The Trump administration has suspended the issuing of visas to citizens of the Southeast Asian countries of Myanmar and Laos, following both governments’ refusal to take back citizens who had been ordered deported from the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday afternoon it had ordered the State Department to sanction visas for Myanmar — formerly Burma — and Laos because those countries “have denied or unreasonably delayed accepting their nationals ordered removed.”

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