Travel Bans

Travel Ban – Full Restrictions

• Maintains full restrictions on 12 countries
  • Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen
• Adds full restrictions to 5 countries
  • Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria and Palestine (docs issued by Palestinian Authority)
• Moves 2 countries from partial to full restrictions
  • Laos and Sierra Leone

Travel Ban – Partial Restrictions

• Maintains partial restrictions on 4 countries
  • Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela
  • Lifts nonimmigrant visa ban on Turkmenistan, maintains ban on immigrant visas
• Adds 15 countries to the partial travel ban
  • Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Travel Ban – Exceptions

• Maintains the exceptions for LPRs, existing visa holders, certain visa categories 
  • Narrows the exceptions for family-based visas including immediate relatives
    • Waivers on a case-by-case basis (very vague!)
  • Eliminates Afghan SIV exception