NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department granted a visa to a man in Iran hoping to donate bone marrow to his U.S. citizen brother with blood cancer, obtaining a rare waiver to President Donald Trump's travel ban, the family's lawyer said on Thursday. The State Department through a spokeswoman said it was unable to comment on a specific visa case. Although the ban allows for case-by-case waivers to be granted, attorneys and applicants say the process is opaque with few clear guidelines on how to apply and why waivers are, or are not, granted. Since the ban took effect, the State Department told Reuters more than 375 waivers have been approved, but declined to say for which countries and out of how many applications. "It's unfortunate that so much effort had to go into getting just one, clearly urgent, visa approved," said Khanbabai.
Nigeria approves Udoka Azubuike's mother's visa to travel to USA
The Nigerian government approved her visa to travel on Thursday, allowing her to fly to San Antonio. Officials in Kansas had to work with the U.S. State Department and Nigerian Consulate to not only secure a passport but a travel visa. Can you imagine, you've never seen your son play basketball and the first time you do it is in front of 70,000 people at this thing? Azubuike played soccer growing up in Nigeria, then started to play basketball as he got older. "When the opportunity came for me to travel to the U.S. to play basketball and to go to school, I didn't think twice about it.
US grants rare visa waiver for Iranian man amid Trump's travel ban
as mentioned in Kamiar, the brother with the perfect match, applied for a US visa in February but it was denied. He reapplied for a visa waiver. For the visa waiver, Maziar's doctor wrote the recommendation, saying: "A perfect match will provide the ability for a safe transplant as there is a higher likelihood that cells will not be recognized as foreign." Trump's travel ban, which the US Supreme Court allowed to go into effect on 8 December after months of legal wrangling, prevents most travel to the United States from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea, as well as certain government officials from Venezuela. "It's unfortunate that so much effort had to go into getting just one, clearly urgent, visa approved," said Khanbabai.Author
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