US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a travel restriction on 43 countries.
According to a report published on Saturday, Reuters cited an internal memo and sources familiar with the situation.
The note mentions 43 countries, grouped into three categories: red, orange, and yellow.
Although the Trump administration has yet to accept the list, it includes several African countries but excludes African economic powerhouses such as Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria, and Egypt.
The red category includes 11 countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Cuba, Bhutan, Venezuela, North Korea, Yemen, and Somalia, whose people would be forbidden from entering the United States.
The orange category includes ten countries whose visas would be severely restricted. They include Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Pakistan, Laos, Turkmenistan, Haiti, and Eritrea.
Countries in the final group were given 60 days to address concerns.
The 22-country yellow list includes Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu, and Zimbabwe.
The list of nations targeted for the planned visa ban was first disclosed by the New York Times.
However, a US official told Reuters that the list could change and that it had not yet been approved by the administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The proposal is part of a crackdown on immigration that Trump launched at the start of his second term in January.
