{"id":54406,"date":"2025-06-06T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/chad-strikes-back-with-visa-ban-on-u-s-citizens-over-travel-blacklist\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:26:37","slug":"chad-strikes-back-with-visa-ban-on-u-s-citizens-over-travel-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/chad-strikes-back-with-visa-ban-on-u-s-citizens-over-travel-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad strikes back with visa ban on U.S. citizens over travel blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Idriss Deby announced the decision in a Facebook post on Thursday, June 5, declaring the suspension a matter of national dignity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have instructed the government to act in accordance with the principles of reciprocity and suspend the issuance of visas to U.S. citizens,\u201d Deby wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cChad has no planes to offer, no billions of dollars to give, but Chad has its dignity and pride,” he added.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes in response to Trump’s recent order reinstating and expanding travel restrictions on foreign nationals from 19 countries, including Chad, citing national security threats, terrorism risks, and poor cooperation on immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

Chad was placed under a full travel ban, meaning most of its citizens are barred from entering the United States. Other African nations under similar restrictions include Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Libya, the Republic of the Congo, and Equatorial Guinea. An additional three\u2014Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Togo\u2014face partial bans targeting tourist, student, and business visas.<\/p>\n

The U.S. administration cited high visa overstay rates and poor vetting infrastructure in Chad as reasons for its inclusion. According to the Department of Homeland Security, certain visa categories from Chad had overstay rates exceeding 50 percent.<\/p>\n

President Trump, in a video statement, said the bans were necessary to protect the U.S. from \u201cforeign terrorists and other threats,\u201d citing a recent terror incident in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want them,\u201d Trump said bluntly, referring to migrants from countries flagged in the executive order. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"President<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chad has suspended the issuance of visas to U.S. citizens in a retaliatory move against its inclusion in a sweeping new American travel ban targeting 12 countries, seven of which are in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000088726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000088726,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ecdk9kqturbxy8xzdbizmq3odcyzjq4mgm2mjizmzy4odgyzgm5ymeync5qcgvnkpudaadnbqdnatctbc0dfs0brt4aaqewbqexaa.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ecdk9kqturbxy8xzdbizmq3odcyzjq4mgm2mjizmzy4odgyzgm5ymeync5qcgvnkpudaadnbqdnatctbc0dfs0brt4aaqewbqexaa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ecdk9kqturbxy8xzdbizmq3odcyzjq4mgm2mjizmzy4odgyzgm5ymeync5qcgvnkpudaadnbqdnatctbc0dfs0brt4aaqewbqexaa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ecdk9kqturbxy8xzdbizmq3odcyzjq4mgm2mjizmzy4odgyzgm5ymeync5qcgvnkpudaadnbqdnatctbc0dfs0brt4aaqewbqexaa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ecdk9kqturbxy8xzdbizmq3odcyzjq4mgm2mjizmzy4odgyzgm5ymeync5qcgvnkpudaadnbqdnatctbc0dfs0brt4aaqewbqexaa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ecdk9kqturbxy8xzdbizmq3odcyzjq4mgm2mjizmzy4odgyzgm5ymeync5qcgvnkpudaadnbqdnatctbc0dfs0brt4aaqewbqexaa.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000088726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54406"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54406"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}