Us Travel Ban

US to lift Covid-19 vaccine mandates for international travelers next week

The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House has said. Vaccine requirements for federal workers, federal contractors, and foreign air travellers to the US will end May 11. The government is also beginning the process of lifting shot requirements for Head Start educators, healthcare workers, and noncitizens at US land borders, the White House said on Monday. The requirements are among the last vestiges of some of the more coercive measures taken by the federal government to promote vaccination as the deadly virus raged, and their end marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden's administration is moving to treat COVID-19 as a routine, endemic illness. While I believe that these vaccine mandates had a tremendous beneficial impact, we are now at a point where we think that it makes a lot of sense to pull these requirements down, Whi

US to lift travel ban on 8 southern African countries on New Year's Eve

The US will lift travel restrictions to eight southern African countries on New Year's Eve, the White House announced Friday.

US ban on travellers from India comes into effect from today

The travel ban imposed by US President Joe Biden for people coming from India, which is experiencing one of the worst waves of the Covid pandemic, came into effect on Tuesday

US House OKs repeal of Donald Trump's travel ban decried as anti-Muslim

In debate ahead of the vote, Democrats repeatedly blasted the travel ban that President Donald Trump first imposed in January 2017

US weighs sweeping travel ban on China's Communist Party members

The presidential proclamation, still in draft form, could also authorise the US govt to revoke the visas of party members and their families who are already in the country, leading to their expulsion

US Senate offers $58 bn aid to airlines as they struggle to stay afloat

The US Senate passed an industry aid package, half in the form of grants to cover some 750,000 employees' paychecks

Amid coronavirus outbreak, Trump to hold G7 summit via video conference

The decision comes as countries around the world seal their borders and ban travel to stop the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed over 9,000 lives so far.

Trump at WEF Davos: US to add a 'couple of countries' to travel ban

The other nations being considered for new rules were Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania

More nations may face US travel bans as Trump renews focus on immigration

The most recent iteration of the ban includes restrictions on five majority-Muslim nations: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as well as Venezuela and North Korea

US granted waivers to only 6% of those subject to Trump travel ban

The travel ban blocks citizens of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as well as some Venezuelan officials, from obtaining a broad range of US immigrant and non-immigrant visas

Appeals court allows partial enforcement of Trump's travel ban

The policy applied to travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen plus some Venezuelan government officials and their families.

Travel ban: After legal settlement, people denied entry to US can reapply

Trump had defended the executive order, saying it was not a Muslim ban

We don't care about US travel ban, says North Korea officials

Tour companies say business has already been hit hard by recent developments

US Supreme Court largely revives Donald Trump travel ban

Trump called this 'a clear victory for our national security'

Apple, Google skip legal challenge to new US travel ban

A legal brief filed in federal court in Hawaii had support of 58 Silicon Valley companies