travel ban

Who did Trump Ban From the United States With His New Presidential Proclamation?

Note: These Presidential proclamations impact only the issuance of visas to the United States. These proclamations do not impact anyone who is seeking a change or adjustment of status on U.S. soil. President Trump finally issued a Presidential Proclamation that had been in the rumor mills for some time. What does the new proclamation do? First, it extends the ban on certain immigrant visas until December 31, 2020. Readers...

New Trump Travel Bans In Light of COVID-19 Are Short-Sighted and Reactionary

The United States has issued a new travel ban targeted at limiting travel from Europe in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, President Trump issued Proclamation 9984 (Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus and Other Appropriate Measures To Address This Risk), which limits travel from EU-specific countries. This follows on the heels of travel bans against all persons...

Trump Administration Expands Muslim Travel Ban

Today, the Trump administration added six more countries to the list of nations facing stringent travel restrictions. Nigeria, Myanmar (Burma), Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan are the new countries to face travel restrictions of varying degrees. The visa ban takes effect on February 21, 2020. There is no expiry date on the visa ban. All six countries have substantially large Muslim populations. These six countries join nationals from Iran, Libya,...

Should the U.S. Impose An Ebola-Specific Travel Ban?

With the latest Ebola scare in the U.S. generating news attention and anxiety from coast to coast, a majority of Americans now want to impose a travel ban on the West African countries hardest hit by the virus. Unfortunately, calls for a travel ban draw from America’s long tradition of xenophobia and could be counter-productive to controlling the spread of Ebola in the U.S. and globally. The current fever...