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The new restriction applies to any foreign national who wants to enter the United States on any of the following visa types:

1. H-1B (temporary specialty occupation employee);
2. H-2B (non-agricultural temporary worker);
3. L-1 (intercompany transferee executive, manager, or specialized knowledge employee); or
4. J-1 (Exchange Visitor) in the intern, trainee, teacher, camp counselor, au pair, and summer work travel categories. (This restriction does not apply to the research scholar, professor, student, student intern, specialist, and short-term scholar categories, which are those sponsored by ���񱦵�.)

and who

1. is outside the United States on the effective date of this proclamation;
2. does not have a nonimmigrant visa stamp in their passport that is valid on the effective date of this proclamation; and
3. does not have an official travel document such as a transportation letter, an appropriate boarding foil, or an advance parole document (for example based on a pending Adjustment of Status application – Form I-485) that is valid on the effective date of this proclamation or issued after the effective date.

Specific Exceptions, special cases

• If an individual was inside the U.S. before 6/24/2020, the proclamation does not apply to them
• If an individual was outside of the U.S. but had a valid H-1B visa in their passport before 6/24/2020, they can use that visa to enter the US until that visa expires.
• If an individual was outside of the U.S. on 6/24/2020 without a valid H-1B visa but they did have an Advanced Parole document, they could use the Advanced Parole document to enter the U.S.

1. U.S. permanent residents;
2. spouses and children of U.S. citizens;
3. individuals seeking to enter the U.S. to provide temporary labor or services essential to the U.S. food supply chain; and
4. and individuals whose entry would be in the national interest.

Yes.

As a result of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, on Jan. 31 the federal  declared a . Thereafter presidential proclamations temporarily limited the entry of foreign nationals from certain countries. A foreign national (not a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident) who travels to China, Iran, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, or Brazil, will not be able to enter the United States until 14 days have passed unless the foreign national meets the definition of an immediate family member of a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. These restrictions remain in effect until the president terminates them. For additional information about these previous presidential proclamations, please see the Immigration Alerts on the ISSS website.

In addition, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of State suspended on March 20, 2020, routine visa services at all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide. The U.S. embassies and consulates are only issuing visas in emergency situations. The U.S. Department of State has not announced when U.S. embassies and consulates will resume routine visa services.