US Anti-Kleptocracy and Human Rights Visa Restrictions

US Visa restrictions on officials of foreign governments and family members credibly implicated in corruption or human rights violations

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs publishes this report of quarterly submissions to congress as per Section 7031(c)(1)(A) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Appropriations Act of 2021

From the report pages:

Officials of foreign governments and their immediate family members about whom the Secretary of State has credible information have been involved, directly or indirectly, in significant corruption, including corruption related to the extraction of natural resources, or a gross violation of human rights, including the wrongful detention of locally employed staff of a United States diplomatic mission or a United States citizen or national, shall be ineligible for entry into the United States.

Data overview

Entities:
Total1,055
Searchable527
Targets527
Entity types:
People527
Countries:
61 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:US State Department (State) · United States

The U.S. State Department's stated mission is to protect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive.

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default · United States Sanctions
Information:www.state.gov
Source data:www.state.gov · HTML
Tags:list.sanction · risk.klepto · issuer.west
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2026-06-26 03:27:02 · v. 20260626032702-ctk
Last change:

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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities858.48 KB
names.txtTarget names text file11.75 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format223.01 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON865.68 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV189.39 KB

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Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Maria Ximena Morales PrenticePersonGuatemala
Beatriz Jansa BianchiPersonGuatemala · Spain
Gojko JojićPersonSerbia
Ricardo Martinelli LinaresPersonPanama
Shayne St. Aubyn LyonsPersonJamaica
Mirsad KukicPersonBosnia and Herzegovina
Maria Jose Saravia MendozaPersonGuatemala
José Ricardo Espinoza GuerraPersonEl Salvador
Vladimir Petrovich YermolayevPersonRussia
Dory Guisha Ronika CelestinPersonHaiti
Gilberto de Jesus Porres de PazPersonGuatemala
Liri BerishaPersonAlbania
Amela MehmedagicPersonBosnia and Herzegovina
Tom DoshiPersonAlbania
Zhaohui YunPersonChina
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