On June 4, 2025, President Trump announced a new travel ban through 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.” The ban, which echoes his 2017 efforts to restrict entry to the United States for nationals of certain countries deemed to be national security risks, expands the number of affected countries and divides them into two categories: Full Suspension of Entry and Partial Suspension of Entry. It will go into effect on June 9, 2025 with no announced end date.

Key provisions include:

• Full Entry Bans: Nationals from the following 12 countries are barred from entering the United States: Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.

• Partial Entry Ban: Seven additional countries—Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela—face the following partial entry restrictions: halting issuance of new visitor (B1/B2), student (F, M), and exchange (J) visas and reduction in validity for nearly all other nonimmigrant visa categories, including all employment visa categories (subject to the exceptions listed below).

• Justification: The proclamation cites the following national security concerns as the basis for the new ban, with varied reasons listed for each suspended country: sponsorship of terrorism, lack of sufficient government to...

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