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The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has announced a set of updates to its Covid-19 Travel and Return Policy.

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 On July 22, 2021, the Biden administration extended travel restrictions affecting travel between U.S., Canadian, and Mexican land ports of entry until August 21, 2021. In so doing, the Biden administration confirmed that it is “maintaining cross-border activities with Canada and Mexico that support health security, trade, commerce, supply security, and other essential activities while taking critical steps to protect [U.S.] citizens and to curb spread of the virus.” The restrictions prohibit all “non-essential” travel to the United States in or...

Direct Travel Ban Due to COVID-19 Beginning on May 4, 2021, at 12:01 AM ET, all nonimmigrants traveling from India are banned from entering the United States, unless they already have a valid visa stamp in their passport and have been outside of India for more than 14 days before traveling to the United States. ( See the White House proclamation released on April 30, 2021, available here.) This travel ban does not apply to U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents ( i.e., green card holders). This ban also does not apply to nonimmigrants ( i.e., H, L, E, O visa holders) attempting to travel...

President Biden Adds India to List of Countries Subject to Direct Travel Ban Due to COVID-19 Beginning on May 4, 2021, at 12:01 AM ET, all nonimmigrants traveling from India will be banned from entering the United States, unless they already have a valid visa stamp in their passport and have been outside of India for more than 14 days before traveling to the United States. ( See the White House proclamation released on April 30, 2021, available here.) This travel ban does not apply to U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents ( i.e., green card holders). This ban also does not apply to nonimm...

Transnational Criminal Organizations      Country-Level and Policy-Level Programs.  Certain of the sanctions programs are focused on individual countries (the “country-level programs”), while others target specific activities on a global basis such as terrorist and non-proliferation sanctions (the “policy-level programs”).  Under a number of the country-level programs (such as Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine – the “comprehensive sanctions programs”) U.S. persons are prohibited from entering into effectively all business transactions with the t...