U.S. President Donald Trump signed a presidential announcement on Wednesday that he would ban citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States. For nationals of seven countries, restrictions on entry to the United States have been strengthened.
The travel ban is the latest move in Trump’s promised immigration crackdown on his campaign ahead of last year’s presidential election.
Trump said the measures would help "protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors."
Here is what we know about the travel ban so far:
The 12 countries that completely restrict nationals from traveling to the United States under Trump’s travel ban are:
The seven countries that are partially restricted are:
A full ban on traveling to the United States by citizens from 12 countries will face a complete suspension of immigrant and non-immigrant visas.
Citizens from seven countries with partial restrictions will no longer be able to apply for immigration visas or non-immigrant temporary visas covering permanent immigration, student visas and tourist visas, including B-1, B-2, B-1/B-2, F, F, M and J, and they can still apply for some temporary visas.
Unlike executive orders, presidential declarations are not legally binding, but usually mark a policy shift.
The new rules apply only to people outside the United States at the time of declaration and have not held a valid visa at the time of declaration.
Yes. New pauses and restrictions will not apply to:
According to the Department of Homeland Security, a total of 363,549 people from 19 countries entered the United States in the 2022 fiscal year, the latest year has arrived.
About 250,234 of them are from Venezuela, which is only partially restricted.
66,563 of these people are from Haiti and are now facing a full travel ban.
Trump regards security threats and "foreign terrorists" as reasons for the ban.
Trump said in a video posted on his social media platform Wednesday that the recent attack in Boulder was “emphasized the serious dangers of foreign nationals who were inappropriately censored and those who came here as temporary tourists and visas.”
On June 1, police arrested a man who threw a group of people attending the rally to free prisoners who were released from Israel and held in Gaza on October 7, 2023. The FBI said it was investigating the incident as a "terrorist act."
The suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman has been charged with federal hate crimes and a series of state charges, according to a U.S. Department of Justice affidavit. Soliman is an Egyptian national who also lives in Kuwait. None of these countries are on the list of countries that Trump is banned.
In a truth-fact social position, Trump accused "(former U.S. President Joe) Biden of allowing Soliman to enter the country. Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, said the suspect had overpriced the tourist visa and did not name Soliman in the boulder.
A fact sheet released by the White House puts forward a specific reason to exclude each country on the new travel ban list.
These reasons include a large number of citizens’ overdue visas, and poor records of cooperation with the United States if the country cooperates with the United States, if they are overdue in the United States, or if the country is affected by the war.
According to the latest data from the Department of Homeland Security, Chad nationals have the highest coverage rate, accounting for 49.5% of people with U.S. visas. Other higher substitution rates are Equatorial Guinea (22%), Eritrea (20%) and Yemen (19.8%).
On his first day of office, Trump signed an executive order calling on his State Department to determine that “the review and screening information is so insufficient that it guarantees partial or complete suspension when these countries accept nationals.” He mentioned the order in a video announcement for the video ban.
The travel ban will come into effect at 12:01 a.m. on June 9 (04:01 GMT).
Yes, Trump issued a travel ban during his first semester in 2017 – a country on the list at the time known as the "Muslim ban."
"My strong travel restrictions during my first term were one of our most successful policies and they are a key part of preventing major foreign terrorist attacks on U.S. soil," Trump said in his Wednesday Truth Social Tape.
The earlier ban was revised several times. The U.S. Supreme Court was upheld in 2018. In 2021, Biden abolished the ban, calling it a "stainment of conscience to our country."
Yes. Trump said in his Truth Social Video announcement: “The list needs to be revised based on whether major improvements have been made.
“Similarly, as threats appear around the world, new countries can be added.”
Somalia is ready to cooperate with the United States, Dahir Hassan Abdi, Ambassador to the United States, said in a statement. "Somali values long-term relations with the United States and is ready to have a dialogue to address the concerns raised," he said.
Trump's announcement described Somalia as a "safe haven for terrorists" and said: "Somali lacks the competent or cooperative central authorities to issue passports or civil documents and does not have appropriate screening and scrutiny measures."
"The fact is that in the United States, not only Venezuelans ... they persecut our fellow countrymen, our people, and there is no reason," said Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.
"Venezuela has historically refused to accept its movable nationality," Trump's announcement said.