There is a draft circulating inside the Trump administration, a document which lists nearly 45 countries that the United States intend to ban from accessing its shores.
Fortunately, Tanzania is not among the doomed countries that the U.S president hates to see landing on his soil.
According to latest updates, the Trump administration is targeting people from as many as 43 countries who will soon be restricted from traveling to the U.S.
The newly proposed travel ban to the United States, as far as officials familiar with the matter are concerned, would be broader, and more inclusive than the restrictions imposed during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.
To start with, there is the top ‘red list,’ which includes eleven blacklisted countries whose residents would be entirely prohibited from entering the United States.
The totally restricted 11 countries include Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.
In the second tier come ten other countries whose people will be limited from entering but not entirely banned. These ‘orange listed’ precincts will be required to have specific visas.
The citizens of Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan will have to sit for in-person interviews before being granted a visa to enter America.
After the orange group comes the third tier painted ‘yellow,’ comprising 22 countries most of which are mapped on the African continent.
Donald Trump is giving these African nations a period of two-months or 60 days to address concerns over their alleged ‘deficiencies,’ failure to which they risk being placed on the red or orange lists, according to the New York Times.
This list includes Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe.
Having missed from the three groups, Tanzania definitely has a clean bill of health as far as traveling to the United States is concerned.
On the other hand, information from Washington reveals that U.S Security specialists and embassy officials at State Department regional bureaus are also reviewing the proposal and providing comments as to the accuracy of the so-called deficiencies or whether there are “policy reasons” to avoid certain categorizations.