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PRESIDENT TRUMP ISSUES TRAVEL BAN

June 6, 2025

On June 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation titled “Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.”

This proclamation, which is set to take effect on June 9, 2025, bans immigrants and nonimmigrants from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from entering the United States. Furthermore, this proclamation bans entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants in the B-1, B-2, F, M, and J visa classifications from seven additional countries including Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. This proclamation only applies to foreign nationals who are outside the United States and do not have a valid immigrant or nonimmigrant visa as of June 9, 2025. That is, no immigrant or nonimmigrant visa issued before June 9, 2025, will be revoked. However, given the risks and uncertainty here, LHSCD strongly advises any foreign national from one of the banned countries to try to enter the US with their valid nonimmigrant or immigrant visa prior to June 9.

This proclamation will not apply to: lawful permanent residents of the United States; any dual national of a country listed above when the individual is traveling on a passport issued by another country; any foreign national traveling with a valid nonimmigrant visa in the A-1, A-2, C-2, C-3, G-1, G-2, G-3, G-4, NATO-1, NATO‑2, NATO-3, NATO-4, NATO-5, or NATO-6 classifications; any athlete or member of an athletic team, including coaches, persons performing a necessary support role, and immediate relatives, traveling for the World Cup, Olympics, or other major sporting event as determined by the Secretary of State; immediate family immigrant visas (e.g., IR-1/CR-1, IR-2/CR-2, IR-5) with clear and convincing evidence of identity and family relationship (e.g., DNA); adoptions (e.g., IR-3, IR-4, IH-3, IH-4); Afghan Special Immigrant Visas; Special Immigrant Visas for United States Government employees; and immigrant visas for ethnic and religious minorities facing persecution in Iran.

Please stay tuned to our website for further updates. If you have any questions about how the new travel ban might affect you or your dependents, please contact your attorney directly. To schedule a new consultation with one of our attorneys, please complete our consultation request form.