U.S REJECTS REFUGE APPLICATIONS FROM MANY WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS.(PHOTO).

 U.S rejects refuge applications from many white South Africans

A number of white South Africans, who recently moved to the United States to take up President Donald Trump's refugee status offer, have been denied entry into the US, TRT Afrika reported.

UK's The Guardian reports that no reasons were given for many of the rejected applications.

However, some who spoke to the news outlet said the US authorities' investigations into their past, some going back as far as 1995, established that they had a history of suspected crime or aggressive public conduct.

For instance, one of the applicants, a 67-year-old man, admitted to shooting a black South African national in 1995 after American authorities highlighted that incident during his screening. The man said he was acting in self-defence.

'Ineligible'

Another applicant was denied entry after American investigators found he had been convicted for trespassing in 2014, while another couple told The Guardian that their inability to speak Afrikaans language disadvantaged them during screening, resulting in their rejection.

In their feedback to many of the rejected refuge-seekers, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said: "We are writing to inform you that, following review, the USCIS found your application to be ineligible for continued processing for resettlement to the United States at this time. This cannot be appealed."

The US government says more than 13,000 Afrikaners have applied for refugee status since Trump first announced the offer in February 2025.