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