The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country. Read more here.
Read more »The only disease singled out in the US immigration law for exclusion will be revoked imminently. Gay rights advocates are applauding this move as a step closer to ending the discriminatory ban which has been in effect since 1987. “Gay rights groups are praising the imminent release of a proposed regulation ending a 1987 U.S. …
Read more »The following communicable diseases of public health significance render a person inadmissible: Chancroid Gonorrhea Granuloma inguinale Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) Hansen’s disease (infectious leprosy) Lymphogranuloma venereum Infectious state syphilis Infectious tuberculosis (TB) (clinically active) In addition, the following physical or mental disorders can render a person inadmissible. Current physical or mental disorders, with harmful …
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