Travel Ban

The Trump administration is weighing a plan to bar travelers from 36 additional countries, a sweeping expansion of the president's revived travel ban, according to an internal State Department cable. What Happened: The classified memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and seen by those over...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday barred nearly all immigration and travel from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, citing poor vetting and terrorism threats. What Happened: The proclamation also...

The Donald Trump administration is considering putting stringent travel restrictions on several countries, with citizens from up to 11 countries facing a total ban on entering the U.S. What happened: The draft list of recommendations included Bhutan in the "red" list, according to a New York Times...

Former President Donald Trump has pledged to reintroduce and extend a controversial travel ban that targets several predominantly Muslim countries if he is re-elected, The Hill reported. Trump made this vow on Wednesday at a rally in Dubuque, Iowa, where he detailed his plans for...

Donald Trump on Wednesday night announced a 30-day ban on travel to the U.S. from Europe as the worldwide spread of the coronavirus topped 120,000. The World Health Organization declared a pandemic and stock markets tumbled further Wednesday and are expected to open sharply lower today. In a...

President Donald Trump instituted a 30-day travel ban to Europe on Wednesday evening in an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The suspension begins midnight Friday and applies to 26 countries excluding Ireland and Britain. European leaders expressed disapproval of Trump’s unilateral...

A federal judge has broadened the definition of a “close relative” in President Donald Trump’s executive order meant to ban people from traveling to the United States from six predominantly Muslim nations. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would take up the ban when it...

Sorry grandma, no visa for you. Daughter-in-law? Come on in. The latest version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from mainly Muslim countries goes into effect Thursday night, and serious questions remain about just how equitably the controversial measure will be applied. Just...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on the controversial travel ban imposed on mostly Muslim countries by President Donald Trump. The high court, in a 16-page opinion issued on the last day before breaking for a summer recess, said it will take up the issue in October. The executive order had...

President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban from a handful of countries has some Silicon Valley companies concerned they won't be able to acquire necessary personnel in both the near and long term. The ongoing concern among American companies both in the Valley and outside has prompted one...

“Our checks show that, as of mid-March, global search interest growth in brands Expedia and Hotels.com is tracking in line with our expectations, with a slight sequential deceleration likely due to the Easter shift into April,” Cantor Fitzgerald’s Naved Khan said in a note. Khan...

Legal experts are having a field day debating whether President Donald Trump has plunged the United States into a “Constitutional crisis,” a loaded term but a somewhat elusive concept. To many people, explaining the concept might as well be embodied by paraphrasing the late Supreme...

President Donald Trump is finding himself on a sticky wicket. With several unpopular executive orders, he has promulgated eliciting severe criticism. An order signed last Friday imposed a freeze on refugee admissions from Syria, a 120-day ban on refugee admissions from other locations and a 90-day...