{"id":10429,"date":"2020-09-15T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2020-09-15T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:18:00","slug":"us-no-longer-limiting-international-arrivals-to-15-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/us-no-longer-limiting-international-arrivals-to-15-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"US no longer limiting international arrivals to 15 airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">From September 14, the US <b>is no longer limiting international arrivals from higher risk countries to specific airports.<\/b> Under previous rules, any passenger from China, Iran, the Schengen area of Europe, the UK, Ireland and Brazil had to enter the United States through one of <b>fifteen centralised airports<\/b> capable of providing enhanced health screening. <b>This is no longer be the case. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The previous system was deemed ineffective because so many people who transmit the disease don\u2019t show symptoms. A new approach is being launched, which authorities say will better mitigate the risk of Coronavirus by focusing more on the individual passenger. <strong>Here\u2019s how it will work:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">Pre-departure, in-flight and post-arrival health education for passengers.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Robust illness response at airports.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Voluntary collection of contact information from passengers using electronic means as proposed by some airlines to avoid long lines, crowding and delays associated with manual data collection.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Potential testing to reduce the risk of travel-related transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19 and movement of the virus from one location to another.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Country-specific risk assessments to assist passengers in making informed decisions about travel-related risk.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Enhancing training and education of partners in the transportation sector and at U.S. ports of entry to ensure recognition of illness and immediate notification to CDC.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Post-arrival passenger recommendations for self-monitoring and precautions to protect others, with enhanced precautions, including staying home to the extent possible for 14 days for people arriving from high-risk destinations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">You can read the announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2020\/s-0909-covid-19-entry-strategy-air-passengers.html\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>, and confirmation from US CBP <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/aircraft-operations\/safety\/coronavirus\/CBP-CLP-Bulletin-Termination-of-Filtering-Airports-20200911.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although the 15-airports rule has gone away, all other US rules on inbound travel remain in place. The main one is this &#8211; <b>with specific exemptions, foreign nationals are not allowed to enter the US if they have been in any of the following countries within the past 14 days: the European Schengen area, the UK and Ireland, mainland China, Iran, and Brazil.<\/b> The \u2018specific exemptions\u2019 part basically means this: US residents and family members, and flight crew traveling to the United States on C, D or C1\/D visas. For more details, check the US Government webpage <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/News\/visas-news\/presidential-proclamation-coronavirus.html\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From September 14, the US is no longer limiting international arrivals from higher risk countries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":10430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1194,1610,1514,771,1611,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-10429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-cbp","9":"tag-cdc","10":"tag-covid","11":"tag-kzzz","12":"tag-us-rules","13":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10431,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions\/10431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}