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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause major challenges to international travel, deeply impacting Automotive and Manufacturing employers’ ability to move their global.
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It’s been 14 months since COVID changed the way we travel across borders, and our ability to do so worldwide. As the pandemic continues to impact countries across the globe, the United States is seeing its lowest numbers of new COVID cases since June 2020 which is being largely attributed to the high numbers of U.S. persons who are being vaccinated
or have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
In light of this, we are fielding many questions about whether and when travel restrictions for those coming to the U.S. from historically higher-COVID areas will be easing. As of May 19, 2021, the following restrictions and limitations still remain in place:
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Effective immediately, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has changed its policy regarding adjudicating requests for National Interest Exceptions (NIE) to Presidential Proclamations 9984, 9992 and 10143 which restrict travel to the U.S. from China, Iran, the Schengen States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, and South Africa. Based on the policy change, CBP will only consider processing NIE requests for urgent humanitarian reasons or those involving national security and/or law enforcement matters. CBP will no longer process new NIE requests regardless of whether an applicant will provide vital support for critical infrastructure. All such NIE requests must now be submitted to and adjudicated by U.S. Department of State (DOS) consulates abroad. Unfortunately, this change is expected to cause delays in NIE processing, as routine operations are still suspended at U.S. consulates. As a result, NIE processing is