Yemenis, Iranians sue US State Dept, ask for visas to be processed

Dozens of Yemenis and Iranians who won the chance to immigrate to the United States sued the US State Department today for not processing their visa applications after President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban was reinstated. The ban, which was blocked by lower courts before being partially reinstated by the Supreme Court in June, temporarily bars citizens of Yemen, Iran and four other Muslim-majority countries with no "bona fide" US connections from traveling to the United States. The Supreme Court ruling sharply limited the number of people affected by the ban. However, thousands of citizens of the six countries who won a randomised US government lottery last year to apply for a so-called green card - granting them permanent residence in the United States - were left in limbo. A recent e-mail from the US government to lottery winners still awaiting their visas warned "it is plausible that your case will not be issuable" due to the 90-day travel ban. In the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Washington D.C., more than 90 Yemeni and Iranian lottery winners said the US government was refusing to issue their visas - won under the "diversity visa" program - because of...