International academics in Europe, the Uk and Ireland are now exempt from President Trump’s ban on the United States. The ban no longer applies to academics in countries that already have exam visas, the U.S. State Department told Congress last week.
“Students in the Schengen area, the UK and Ireland with valid F-1 and M-1 visas want to apply for a national interest exception to travel,” the State Department says on its website. “Students in those spaces traveling in a J-1 may touch the nearest embassy or consulate to initiate an exception request.”
Trump’s ban, in force since March, in the past applied to any traveler who wanted to make a stop in the United States from the Schengen area, the United Kingdom or Ireland. That is, if they have spent the last 14 days in one of those countries.
F-1 visas or “student visas” are used through foreign nationals to assist in the United States of other degrees of education.
M-1 visas are for non-university or vocational studies.
J-1 visas are exchange visas for researchers, teachers and others. These visa holders are not exempt, but can apply for one.
There is no announced resignation for academics in China, Brazil and Iran who “face similar prohibitions,” Reuters reports. «… academics in those countries were not included in the U.S. exemptions.” Students also do not expect interviews at U.S. embassies and consulates.
The move comes days after Trump’s management canceled a debatable course plan for foreign students. This would have noticed that tens of thousands of them have their visas revoked and face deportation.
“The change came here amid demanding legal situations in primary universities and the stress of generation companies,” the report says.
Yes, but a lot. Exceptions for access to the United States for “humanitarian travel, public fitness interventions and national security purposes continue,” the government says.
According to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, a memorandum sent to lawmakers also raised the option of extending exceptions to au pairs and the circle of relatives members of U.S. visa holders. Spouses and youth from foreigners with the “H-1B prized for highly professional workers” may also be exempt, he said.
These additional exemptions have not yet been announced through the State Department, as the Trump administration is reopening foreign travel.
The resolution of exempting only academics at this time is interesting. Since the European Union has its members doing exactly the same thing.
The EU has begun to lift restrictions on tourists and other “non-essential” lers from 1 July. The list of safe countries to which it opened its borders was revised on 15 July. The United States was not yet on the list of thirteen nations. Two countries were abandoned due to their Covid-19 epidemiology.
The U.S. ban is likely to exist for some time. Although it’s checked every fortnight.
However, the EU urges its members to make more exceptions for students, au pairs, highly professional workers, long-term partners and a circle of family members of EU citizens. Only a few, adding Denmark, have formalized these exceptions.
The resonance of exemptions for academics on both sides of the Atlantic highlights the policy of reciprocity at stake in these prohibitions. The EU has not hidden this (China, for example, has been given soft green to Europe, but only if it does the same for Europeans).
Apart from the students, it turns out that there is little evasion of the ban for anyone else in the Schengen area.
Despite Trump’s promise about two months ago that there will soon be “announcements” about America’s opening to travelers from low-risk countries in Europe and elsewhere.
For now, Europeans who need to circumvent The Trump Ban must spend 14 days elsewhere before heading to the United States. Many have done so in Serbia or other non-Schengen European countries.
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