As the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Friday announced it would provide new options to forestall deportation for people from Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone.

The agency said nationals from those countries who are in the United States on a nonimmigrant visa for a temporary stay, such as a tourist visa, can get an extension, even if the visa has already expired.

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