The Trump administration has not yet published an executive order banning visa issuance or inbound travel from specific countries, however, we anticipate travel bans as soon as late March.
Trump’s Executive Order, “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats,” instructs certain federal departments to submit a report to the President within 60 days “identifying countries throughout the world for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries…” The travel bans will likely resemble those from the first Trump Administration with travel and entry ban restrictions for foreign nationals from identified countries.
The Trump administration may also implement visa issuance bans under separate statutory authority, INA 243, on the basis of a country either not accepting or delaying acceptance of deportees from their country. As a result, we recommend exercising caution with international travel. It may be possible for a travel ban to be implemented while a foreign national is outside the country which may result in the inability to return to the United States for an indefinite or undefined period.
