US restricts sports visas for transgender women as Trump government’s crackdown on immigration continues; check key policy update here

The US Citizenship and Migration Services (USCIS) announced on 4 August 2025 Monday that it has updated migration policy to restrict visa compliance for transgender women who want to compete in women’s sports. The latest development is in line with the efforts of US President Donald Trump’s management to regulate transsexual participation in athletics and follows similar policies that come into force at the state level.

What are the new rules in the latest immigration policy update

Within the scope of the policy update, USCIS evaluates EB-1 and EB-2 green cards and EB-2 green cards for high-skilled workers while evaluating visa petitions such as O-1A for extraordinary ability. The USCIS spokesman Matthew Traragesser, quoted by the news agency Reuters, said. “Only women athletes to come to the United States to participate in women’s sports to receive a visa to come to the US is a security, justice, respect and real issue.”

The Olympic and Paralympic Committee of the United States of the United States updated his policy in accordance with a executive order signed by a executive order signed earlier this year, which prevented Trump Transgender women from competition in women’s sports.

In February 2025, Trump signed the order of “keeping men away from women’s sports”, a directive that supporters say that justice will be re -provided, but critics violate the rights of a small minority of athletes.