On May 1, 2023, the White House announced that the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for nonimmigrant international air travelers will end as of the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Implemented in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the mandate required all nonimmigrant travelers arriving in the US by air to provide proof of vaccination status to as a condition to entry into the country in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 variants into the US and to allow the US healthcare system time to manage access to care in the event of increased COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Noting that COVID-19 related deaths are down 95%, and COVID-19 hospitalizations are down by 91%, each since January 2021, the White House announcement indicated that “we are in a different phase of our response to COVID-19” compared to January 2021, when the travel vaccination mandate went into effect. The White House’s termination of the international air travel COVID-19 vaccine requirement coincides with the official end to the COVID-19 public health emergency on April 10, 2023.
Correspondingly, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also announced that after May 11, 2023, it will be rescinding its Title 19 restrictions, which required COVID-19 vaccination for non-U.S. travelers entering the country by land border and ferry terminals from Canada and Mexico.
This means that as of May 12, 2023, nonimmigrants traveling to the U.S. by either air, land, or ferry transportation...
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