Global Visa Freeze: Trump Administration Pauses All Immigrant Interviews for Public Charge Training

The State Department has frozen all immigrant visa interviews worldwide, ordering U.S. embassies and consulates to cancel and postpone scheduled appointments while consular officers undergo "in-depth training" on new public-charge guidance. The training, launched in early August, is designed to help officers better identify applicants likely to become dependent on government assistance programs like Medicaid or SNAP, a determination that can render an applicant inadmissible under...