An article by The Times of India, published on January 16, 2026, claims that the 'US freezes immigrant visas' for Pakistan and 74 other nations, with the 'Islamabad embassy giv[ing] update' on a 'ban' taking effect from January 21. The article, alongside several other major news outlets published around the same date, attributes this action to the 'Trump Administration' and references 'Secretary Rubio' as having instituted this pause. However, this information is demonstrably false and constitutes significant misinformation as of January 2026. Donald Trump is not the current President of the United States; Joe Biden assumed office in January 2021. President Biden's administration, on February 24, 2021, explicitly revoked Presidential Proclamation 10014, a Trump-era ban that had temporarily suspended the issuance of immigrant visas. The Biden administration has since moved to reverse many of the Trump-era restrictions on immigration. Furthermore, the current official website for the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Pakistan states that it 'is processing immigrant visas across all categories,' though acknowledging 'significant backlogs' and 'lengthy' wait times. This directly contradicts any claim of a new, impending freeze. The mention of 'Secretary Rubio' is also inaccurate, as Marco Rubio is a sitting Senator and was not the Secretary of State under the Trump administration (Mike Pompeo held that position). The widespread reporting of this fabricated policy by multiple news organizations in January 2026, misattributing it to a non-current administration and an incorrect cabinet member, indicates a significant lapse in fact-checking and the propagation of fake news. The original article's premise is therefore unsubstantiated by real-time facts regarding current US immigration policy.