The US State Department is “undertaking a full review of all visa programs,” a department spokesperson confirmed amid reports of an impending new travel ban, and a US official familiar with the situation told CNN that Afghanistan could be among the countries included.

President Trump’s first-term policy grew out of his 2015 campaign call to bar Muslims from entering the country and evolved amid court battles.

As a young man, Muhammad Ilyas stood side-by-side with US soldiers as they took on the Taliban in his native Afghanistan, working as an interpreter and driven by a need for "revenge" for attacks on his family.

During President Trump’s first term, he created a series of bans against citizens from Muslim-majority countries.

Several news agencies report that the White House is preparing a new travel ban, preventing citizens from certain countries from coming into the United States. The ban would revive one of the more controversial policies of the previous Trump administration.