Edit by... Yousef Gouda

On his first day in power, 20 January 2021, President Joe Biden overturned his predecessor Trump's decision to ban the entry of citizens of 13 mostly Muslim or African countries, calling it a "disgrace to our national conscience."

The US state has said that most of those who applied for US visas were rejected because of the decision of former President Donald Trump to seek a review of their applications, or to file new applications.

In a statement, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that those who applied for visas and were denied them before January 20, 2020, had to apply and pay their own fees.

Those who had been rejected on or after January 20, 2020, could petition for review without having to resubmit or pay additional fees.

It should be noted that since December 2017, after the United States Supreme Court approved an amended version of the original travel ban, according to State Department data, about 40,000 people have been denied entry into the United States under the embargo.

It is reported that the Trump administration has added some countries and removed others from the embargo list. The countries included in the resolution were Myanmar, Eritrea, Iran, Qazgistan, Libya, Nigeria, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela and Yemen.