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Analyst Lavdrim Lita has spoken about the suspension of American visas for 75 countries, including Albania.
He described the decision as serious and with direct consequences for Albanian citizens, while criticizing the lack of a clear diplomatic response from the Albanian government.
Lita said that "the Albanian government did not react in the right way because it kept the situation a little quiet. He added that the Foreign Ministry reacted aggressively, saying that you are being misinformed, but in fact the citizens will suffer from this.
"Then, the United States has suspended the process of issuing family reunification visas and visas related to immigration for work in the United States, for 75 countries around the world, including.
Yes, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia and Montenegro were, despite the fact that Serbia was not. And this was seen as a bit of a sidelining of these countries. And it's serious.
That is, suspending the American lottery, the fact that many Albanians who live and have American passports cannot reunify their families during this period, or those engineers or those who have applied for work in the United States of America, will make the process more difficult for them, for how long it is not known, but of course, they cannot stop tourist visas because next year they have the World Cup and normally during the World Cup they will ask people to take advantage of this, people who have the financial means to go, spend in the United States of America, watch matches, live for a certain period of one month, if they are interested and then return. So to do football tourism.
And state visas have not been stopped, so diplomatic visas and others. They have only been stopped for citizens seeking family reunification, seeking work.
And this is serious because you have been promised...
You were promised, you were promised that the American lottery is something that leads to a green card.
So it is an American dream and I think that the motivation that the United States of America has officially given is that because the Albanian population in the US benefits from social benefits, that is, they enter social programs and receive economic assistance for many issues, they are about 41%, which means about 130-150,000 citizens, it is not so clear, since countries that have the same percentages as us that seek economic assistance, called social in the United States, are not included in this list of suspensions.
So it also has to do with a political decision. Of course, there is a lot of chaos, politics and the government did not react in the right way. We have seen a different reaction from the Kosovo government, which noted the problem, said, yes, it is true, we have a problem with our immigration to the United States of America, in terms of work and those searches for facilities, we will take measures and it was a serious stance of the Kosovo government.
"The Albanian government kept it quiet for a while, reacted very aggressively with the Foreign Ministry, saying that you are being misinformed, but in fact the citizens will suffer from this. Whether Elisa Spiropali wants it or not, whether Prime Minister Rama wants it or not. So it is a problem that they should have channeled into diplomatic forms and a form of public communication for the Albanian citizens ," Lita said for "Ora News".
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