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.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Ugh. These TrumpNazis make me sick.
itcfish
(1,828 posts)Israelis if they were born in Arab countries. They are Syrian, Lebanese etc. who are Jewish, No?
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)The article is about Israelis, not Jews born in Arab countries. Israelis can be born anywhere, just like Americans.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)"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.
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)"Israeli" is not "Jew".
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)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???
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)Same principle applies.
itcfish
(1,828 posts)I work for a foreign consulate.
hack89
(39,171 posts)if they are granted citizenship, they are Israeli.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)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)It is a Muslim ban.
haele
(12,660 posts)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
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup