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Newest data from @StateDept shows pace of waiver issuances for people subject to travel ban appears to be picking up. As of Oct. 31, 23% of visa applicants subject to the ban had been granted waivers. That's up from 17% a month earlier travel.state.gov/content/dam/vi…
Those figures mask huge disparities by nationality. For instance, the October figures show that just 8.7% of visa applications by Iranians (by far the largest group) were granted waivers. Libyans were 36%, Somalis 26%, Yemenis (2nd largest group) 57%
Still, it's a dramatic difference from the situation in the first months of the travel ban. I reported in April that in the ban's first 11 months, just 6 percent of people subject to it were granted waivers reuters.com/article/us-usa…
One reason more waivers are being issued is that, as @StateDept official Ed Ramotowski testified in September, the agency has instituted a new, automatic security check process that is speeding things up
The data I cited above is included on this @StateDept page, which I believe they will continue to update on a monthly basis travel.state.gov/content/travel…
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