Iran Visas Exempted From Trump Travel Ban Being Blocked Anyway

President Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban from seven countries exempted Iranians seeking student and exchange-visitor visas, but many of those applicants have been blocked as well.

The department is on track to approve only about one-third as many Iranians for student visas this fiscal year as in the year before Trump was elected, State Department data shows. And while the number of exchange visas is about on par with the pace of approval last year, the figure is well below numbers from previous years.

The department is denying about half of applications in both categories, and more commonly than being ...