Travel Ban
#1
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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.
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.
#2
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Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 2
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.
Did not the proclamation says spouses of USC's were exempt anyway.
#3
Re: 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.
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.
#4
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Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 246
Re: Travel Ban
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.
#5
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Joined: Mar 2010
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Re: Travel Ban
The details are here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...l-coronavirus/
Don’t see L or H visas on the exemptions.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...l-coronavirus/
Don’t see L or H visas on the exemptions.
#6
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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?
#7
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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?
#9
Re: Travel Ban
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.
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.