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Palmer30 Mar 15th 2020 9:00 am
Travel Ban
 
Hello,

Grateful for info if anyone else is in the same position as my family?

We have just finished our IR-1 process. I have received my passport back with my I-551 sticker and white envelope.

We are currently due to travel from the UK to the US soon, and I was wondering how the travel ban would affect us. My wife is a USC, I am a UKC.

The borders are currently open for US citizens and green card holders. In my situation, since I have a visa and I-551 but do not physically have the green card or SSN, I am expecting to not be allowed in until the travel ban has been lifted?

Appreciate there is a lot of speculation at the moment but I wondered by chance if anyone else is in this position and could share some info/experiences?

Thanks.

scrubbedexpat099 Mar 15th 2020 9:12 am
Re: Travel Ban
 
I 551 on endorsement acts as a temporary Green Card. So if you wanted to be really picky flying through say Dublin which has pre clearance means you would have your GC.

Did not the proclamation says spouses of USC's were exempt anyway.

S Folinsky Mar 15th 2020 3:42 pm
Re: Travel Ban
 
Originally Posted by Palmer30 (Post 12821026)
Hello,

Grateful for info if anyone else is in the same position as my family?

We have just finished our IR-1 process. I have received my passport back with my I-551 sticker and white envelope.

We are currently due to travel from the UK to the US soon, and I was wondering how the travel ban would affect us. My wife is a USC, I am a UKC.

The borders are currently open for US citizens and green card holders. In my situation, since I have a visa and I-551 but do not physically have the green card or SSN, I am expecting to not be allowed in until the travel ban has been lifted?

Appreciate there is a lot of speculation at the moment but I wondered by chance if anyone else is in this position and could share some info/experiences?

Thanks.
I believe that spouses of AmCits are exempt from the ban.

newacct Mar 15th 2020 5:56 pm
Re: Travel Ban
 
Originally Posted by Boiler (Post 12821035)
I 551 on endorsement acts as a temporary Green Card. So if you wanted to be really picky flying through say Dublin which has pre clearance means you would have your GC.

Did not the proclamation says spouses of USC's were exempt anyway.
The OP does not have an I-551. They have an immigrant visa, which turns into an I-551 when they are admitted into the US with it, but the travel ban would make them inadmissible if the ban applied to them, so they cannot be admitted in the first place, either in the US or at preclearance.

Fortunately, spouses of US citizens and permanent residents (IR1 is spouse of US citizen) are exempt from the ban, so the OP can still enter. But not all categories of immigrants are so lucky.

tht Mar 15th 2020 6:04 pm
Re: Travel Ban
 
The details are here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...l-coronavirus/

Don’t see L or H visas on the exemptions.

Gordon Barlow Mar 15th 2020 6:04 pm
Re: Travel Ban
 
As far as I can tell, it's still OK for an EU citizen to enter the USA as long as they haven't recently been living within the EU. Is that correct? I'd be grateful for confirmation. A friend of mine is in that situation, having lived in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean for the past six months. She now wants to take a vacation in Hawaii. Will she make it to there, via Miami?

newacct Mar 15th 2020 6:45 pm
Re: Travel Ban
 
Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow (Post 12821302)
As far as I can tell, it's still OK for an EU citizen to enter the USA as long as they haven't recently been living within the EU. Is that correct? I'd be grateful for confirmation. A friend of mine is in that situation, having lived in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean for the past six months. She now wants to take a vacation in Hawaii. Will she make it to there, via Miami?
It's physical presence (even transit) in the relevant countries that matters. Citizenship doesn't matter.

Gordon Barlow Mar 15th 2020 8:44 pm
Re: Travel Ban
 
Originally Posted by newacct (Post 12821324)
It's physical presence (even transit) in the relevant countries that matters. Citizenship doesn't matter.
Good to know, and thanks for the confirmation! Post here if there's any change in that, if you would be so kind.

tom169 Mar 15th 2020 11:47 pm
Re: Travel Ban
 
Originally Posted by newacct (Post 12821293)
The OP does not have an I-551. They have an immigrant visa, which turns into an I-551 when they are admitted into the US with it, but the travel ban would make them inadmissible if the ban applied to them, so they cannot be admitted in the first place, either in the US or at preclearance.

Fortunately, spouses of US citizens and permanent residents (IR1 is spouse of US citizen) are exempt from the ban, so the OP can still enter. But not all categories of immigrants are so lucky.
Which is why I believe Boiler was mentioning use the preclearance at Dublin to gain an I-551 so then able to board the airplane.


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