{"id":16091,"date":"2025-11-29T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-department-pauses-visas-for-afghan-travelers-after-national-guard-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:21:11","slug":"state-department-pauses-visas-for-afghan-travelers-after-national-guard-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-department-pauses-visas-for-afghan-travelers-after-national-guard-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department pauses visas for Afghan travelers after National Guard shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department has paused visas for Afghan nationals after two National Guard members from West Virginia were shot close to the White House. &ldquo;The Department of State has IMMEDIATELY paused visa issuance for individuals traveling on Afghan passports. The Department is taking all necessary steps to protect U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5626073-us-pauses-afghan-visa-issuance\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department has paused visas for Afghan nationals after two National Guard members from West Virginia were shot close to the White House. &ldquo;The Department of State has IMMEDIATELY paused visa issuance for individuals traveling on Afghan passports. The Department is taking all necessary steps to protect U.S&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}