{"id":220661,"date":"2026-01-16T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-embassy-clarifies-u-s-immigrant-visa-pause-says-tourist-student-visas-unaffected\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:06:50","slug":"liberia-embassy-clarifies-u-s-immigrant-visa-pause-says-tourist-student-visas-unaffected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-embassy-clarifies-u-s-immigrant-visa-pause-says-tourist-student-visas-unaffected\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Embassy Clarifies U.S. Immigrant Visa Pause, Says Tourist, Student Visas Unaffected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Washington, D.C. \u2014 The Embassy of the Republic of Liberia in Washington, D.C. has issued a clarification on the United States Government&#8217;s temporary administrative pause on the processing of certain immigrant visa categories, assuring Liberians that the measure does not affect non-immigrant visas and does not signal a deterioration in Liberia-U.S. relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">In a statement released Thursday, the Embassy said the pause applies to specific immigrant visa categories for nationals of 75 countries,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601150257.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 The Embassy of the Republic of Liberia in Washington, D.C. has issued a clarification on the United States Government&#8217;s temporary administrative pause on the processing of certain immigrant visa categories, assuring Liberians that the measure does not affect non-immigrant visas and does not signal a deterioration in Liberia-U.S. relations. In a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,12020,1946,13588,4712,1107,257,28164,254,11431,2584,2282,35385,1956,5767],"class_list":["post-220661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clarifies","tag-embassy","tag-immigrant","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pause","tag-south-africa-today","tag-student","tag-tourist","tag-u-s","tag-unaffected","tag-visa","tag-visas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}