{"id":1309,"date":"2017-01-31T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:12:51","slug":"immediate-us-visa-ban-on-7-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/immediate-us-visa-ban-on-7-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Immediate US Visa ban on 7 countries &#8211; Aircrew also"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KZZZ\/USA<\/strong>\u00a0Now in force, is an immediate ban on US visas (and therefore US travel) for citizens from 7 countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya. This is distinct from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/january-2016-us-visa-waiver-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/january-2016-us-visa-waiver-changes\/\">Visa Waiver Program ban<\/a> in effect since January 2016. The ban is posted for 90 days, but may last longer.<\/p>\n<p>Admission will be refused to visitors with a passport issued by the following 7 countries: <strong>Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen<\/strong>, and holding a valid immigrant or non-immigrant visa for the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This travel ban <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does not<\/span> apply to<\/strong>:<br \/>\n&#8211; Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) of the USA who also hold a passport issued by one of the aforementioned countries<br \/>\n&#8211; Dual Nationals, holding and traveling with a valid passport issued by USA as well as a passport issued by one of the aforementioned countries<br \/>\n&#8211; Dual Nationals holding and traveling with a valid passport issued by a third country as well as a passport issued by one of the aforementioned countries<br \/>\n&#8211; Passengers with diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations and G-1 ,G-2 ,G-3 ,and G-4 visas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aircrew<br \/>\n<\/strong>This affects aircrew as well, whether travelling on a C1\/D visa, or whether on duty or off duty.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the situation as we understand it, we&#8217;ll keep this page updated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KZZZ\/USA\u00a0Now in force, is an immediate ban on US visas (and therefore US travel) for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[771,68,15,178,222,772],"class_list":{"0":"post-1309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-special-report","8":"tag-kzzz","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa","11":"tag-visa-waiver","12":"tag-visas","13":"tag-vwp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}