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