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brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 01:05 PM Jan 2017

U.S. Embassy Reassures Israelis Born in Arab Countries on Visas

Source: Haaretz

The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv issued a statement on Tuesday to clarify the status of visas held by Israelis born in Arab countries, in light of an entry ban issued by the Trump administration to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The embassy said that: “If you have a currently valid U.S. visa in your Israeli passport and were born in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen, and do not have a valid passport from one of these countries, your visa was not cancelled and remains valid."

It added that  Israelis born in any of these countries may still apply for U. S. visas.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.768792



This reassures me that's it's definitely a religious ban.
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U.S. Embassy Reassures Israelis Born in Arab Countries on Visas (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2017 OP
Explicitly parsed racism C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #1
How can they be itcfish Jan 2017 #2
Right of return citizenship brooklynite Jan 2017 #4
As nothing to do with the article. Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #6
Did you read the article? brooklynite Jan 2017 #7
Did you? Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #8
Just a guess, but Israel probably doesn't admit a lot of non-Jewish immigrants. brooklynite Jan 2017 #11
You'd guess wrong and it is still not relevant to the article. Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #17
I work for a foreign Consulate itcfish Jan 2017 #10
You do understand someone born in Ireland can still be American, right? Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #5
I Understand itcfish Jan 2017 #13
Every Jew in the world has the right to live in Israel and claim Israeli citizenship. hack89 Jan 2017 #18
No, it's not a religious test. What would give you that idea ? Trust Buster Jan 2017 #3
OK During The Iranian Crisis itcfish Jan 2017 #14
They tell us it is not a Muslim ban yet they give exceptions for Christians and Jews. Trust Buster Jan 2017 #15
Right, tell me again how the Saturday EO had nothing to do with religion? haele Jan 2017 #9
RELIGIOUS BAN jpak Jan 2017 #12
As overt as it gets n/t Tom Rinaldo Jan 2017 #16

itcfish

(1,828 posts)
2. How can they be
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 01:34 PM
Jan 2017

Israelis if they were born in Arab countries. They are Syrian, Lebanese etc. who are Jewish, No?

Behind the Aegis

(53,961 posts)
6. As nothing to do with the article.
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:21 PM
Jan 2017

The article is about Israelis, not Jews born in Arab countries. Israelis can be born anywhere, just like Americans.

brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
7. Did you read the article?
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:25 PM
Jan 2017

"The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv issued a statement on Tuesday to clarify the status of visas held by Israelis born in Arab countries, in light of an entry ban issued by the Trump administration to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.

itcfish

(1,828 posts)
10. I work for a foreign Consulate
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:21 PM
Jan 2017

If an you are born in another country and your parents register you as citizen of another nation, you will be issued a passport of that nation. In other words a person born in Italy for example of American parents, the US Citizen parents must register the infant in the US Embassy or US consulate and they will be issued a US Passport. So I don't understand what this article means. If an adult is born in another country as was never registered in Israel, they are a citizen of that country. Yes???

hack89

(39,171 posts)
18. Every Jew in the world has the right to live in Israel and claim Israeli citizenship.
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 05:27 PM
Jan 2017

if they are granted citizenship, they are Israeli.

itcfish

(1,828 posts)
14. OK During The Iranian Crisis
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:28 PM
Jan 2017

in the 70's Iranians were not allowed entrance to the US but there were exceptions, Iranian Jews were given special entrance VISAS. Even though many did not have passports, just travel permits. So exceptions are made based on religion

 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
15. They tell us it is not a Muslim ban yet they give exceptions for Christians and Jews.
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:43 PM
Jan 2017

It is a Muslim ban.

haele

(12,660 posts)
9. Right, tell me again how the Saturday EO had nothing to do with religion?
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:39 PM
Jan 2017

First, it was majority Islamic countries where Drumpf didn't have any businesses identified as being threats to America - and it so happens that the Majority Islamic countries that are actually unsafe for Americans - where terrorists originated that had actually killed or harmed Americans on U.S. soil over the past 30 years were not on that list because, well, Drumpf has businesses there.
Lie and Hypocritical bigotry example #1
Second - Proof of not being a muslim from these countries allows one to be exempt from the EO. Unconstitutional Religious Test. Also against the treaty of Tripoli. Hypocritical bigotry example #2

And the excuses - "well these are countries where Christians are being killed for being Christians" - I guess Marionite Christians in Egypt, or Christians in Malaysia or Pakistan aren't real Christians when their churches are firebombed and they're arrested for being apostate and murdered in their homes.
Hypocritical bigotry example #3.

Look, anyone with half a brain can tell you that when people see others like them being singled out, they know they're next. Let's threaten and radicalize the refugees, immigrants, and children of immigrants that are already over here, why don't we? That makes America really safe, doesn't it...

Such "good, Patriotic Christians" who are wiping their ignorant asses on a Constitution they never read (well, except for the 2nd Amendment for most of them), doing the best for their particular religion - that they've also never read.
Precious little 5% snowflakes want their "rights" and "freedom", but don't believe they're beholden to the same rule of law that made this country what I is, the same rule of law the rest of the 95% of us live under.
I really wish we can find a dimensional pocket to drop those fearful little snowflakes into so they can sort out their own petty issues amongst themselves while the rest of us get along with the great, big, diverse world we exist in.

I'm not at all fond of Radicalism in any religion. But I do believe in a fair, secular society of rights and laws that everyone lives under, no matter what radical religion they want to live under.

Haele

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