Has Anyone Left Europe's Schengen Area for 14 Days to Then Enter USA?

[Sarah84 46]

Hi! I have two questions and hope that someone can answer them 🙂 Do I need to pay a fee at the airport in Mexico? I have been reading this on different websites. How do I have to pay for this fee? And my other question is if someone knows if the beaches in Cancun are open. I will fly to Mexico on Wednesday 🙂

[Ja3germeister 90]

3 minutes ago, Sarah84 said:

Hi! I have two questions and hope that someone can answer them 🙂 Do I need to pay a fee at the airport in Mexico? I have been reading this on different websites. How do I have to pay for this fee? And my other question is if someone knows if the beaches in Cancun are open. I will fly to Mexico on Wednesday 🙂

1. There is no fee

2. I can't answer this one

[HRQX 4,145]

45 minutes ago, Sarah84 said:

Do I need to pay a fee at the airport in Mexico?

Are you referring to FMM fee? "If you fly into Mexico from overseas, the fee is usually included within your air ticket’s “fees and surcharges.” The fee is approximately US$25." https://www.mexperience.com/your-mexican-tourist-permit-fmm/

51 minutes ago, Sarah84 said:

And my other question is if someone knows if the beaches in Cancun are open.

Looks like they are currently closed: [article is in Spanish] https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2020/06/08/cancun-inicia-la-semana-con-semaforo-naranja-que-actividades-se-pueden-y-no-se-pueden-hacer/

[Just Paul 4,591]

59 minutes ago, Sarah84 said:

Do I need to pay a fee at the airport in Mexico?

It is included in the ticket - we always have to get ours refunded.

 

59 minutes ago, Sarah84 said:

And my other question is if someone knows if the beaches in Cancun are open.

Officially - yes.  Due to be re-evaluated on the 14th.  Playa de Carmen has some open.  There are some "private islands" with lagoons.  Ask arround.

[dannie xox 8]

has anyone stayed in Croatia for 2 weeks then travelled to the US via Turkey? or have any info on this?

[A Polite Parrot 41]

21 hours ago, zrdn2019 said:

I just came across this article that summarizes which countries are "open" and to what extent, for just about the whole planet:

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/12/which-countries-are-open-for-summer-travel-after-coronavirus.html

Thanks for sharing that! I would also suggest IATA’s website is good for checking for open boarders.

One thing to keep in mind is always looking at the date published or updated. It took a few days before IATA’s website updated their language to match Croatia’s new “open to tourism” allowance and some of the older Coronavirus Travel Restirctions by Country articles contain 2-month-old restrictions that have vastly changed for better or worse.

 

4 minutes ago, dannie xox said:

has anyone stayed in Croatia for 2 weeks then travelled to the US via Turkey? or have any info on this?

We are entering my second week in croatia. Croatian police are fine with a paid tourist booking or proof of Croatian property, pay close attention to the Connecting flight’s country’s restrictions. Ours were in Frankfurt but before we could check-in in Spain, our airline Lufthansa, was extremely hesitant and critical before issuing our checkin and boarding pass. Bring proof and emails from embassies and boarder police clarifying what is allowed. For more see our post here.

The trouble is Turkish airlines have cancelled on us with the possibility of flights restarting on July 1. Serbia Air is running from Belgrade to JFK but has cancelled all ZAG, Croatia to BEG, Serbia flights until July 1. Check your flight search engine around that time, and watch Turkish, Serbian, and Croatian news for hints of trouble or new updates. RIght now we are looking at the option to drive across because Serbian boarders are open. See IATA’s website and Serbia’s official police website.

[dannie xox 8]

39 minutes ago, A Polite Parrot said:

Thanks for sharing that! I would also suggest IATA’s website is good for checking for open boarders.

One thing to keep in mind is always looking at the date published or updated. It took a few days before IATA’s website updated their language to match Croatia’s new “open to tourism” allowance and some of the older Coronavirus Travel Restirctions by Country articles contain 2-month-old restrictions that have vastly changed for better or worse.

 

We are entering my second week in croatia. Croatian police are fine with a paid tourist booking or proof of Croatian property, pay close attention to the Connecting flight’s country’s restrictions. Ours were in Frankfurt but before we could check-in in Spain, our airline Lufthansa, was extremely hesitant and critical before issuing our checkin and boarding pass. Bring proof and emails from embassies and boarder police clarifying what is allowed. For more see our post here.

The trouble is Turkish airlines have cancelled on us with the possibility of flights restarting on July 1. Serbia Air is running from Belgrade to JFK but has cancelled all ZAG, Croatia to BEG, Serbia flights until July 1. Check your flight search engine around that time, and watch Turkish, Serbian, and Croatian news for hints of trouble or new updates. RIght now we are looking at the option to drive across because Serbian boarders are open. See IATA’s website and Serbia’s official police website.

thank you for your response, that really helped. By the time I’ll be able to fly from Croatia it’ll be the first week of July anyway so hopefully that will be ok, i won’t have the choice to drive so i’ll be going hoping turkish airlines start around that time. fingers crossed!

[jvette 13]

On 6/11/2020 at 12:38 AM, talia0506 said:

So as mentioned earlier, our flight to Cancun Mexico is on the 20th from Frankfurt. I was following the whole thread and saw that lots of you had issues to explain the situation at check-in.

I just want to be prepared and hope all works out. What documents do you usually need to show them to make sure you are allowed to board the flight to Mexico?

Obviously the flight to the US after 14 days right and probably the reservation Mexico. Do you also need to show emails with CBP and Mexican government? Just want to make sure we are prepared.

I saw that most of you have a K-1 visa that have entered so far. My husband and I have L-1 visas and I guess the difference is that we actually already live in the US since a couple years. We are nervous but hope all will be fine!

 

Congrats on booking your flights and trying to make this work Talia! When I saw your post and realized you're coming in on an L-1 with your husband I wanted to share this article to make sure you were aware of what's going on. I'm surprised that nobody's posted about it in here but that's probably because it's not going to apply to K-1s. Apologies as I'm not trying to cause any more stress than everyone's already dealing with, but if this actually goes through (everything is just rumors so far but the sources are supposedly pretty credible) it's going to be an absolute shitshow. 

 

"There is speculation that the expanded proclamation could bar entry to the U.S. for H-1B, H-2B, L-1 and J-1 applicants pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act sections 212(f) and 215(a). More exactly, the proclamation is expected to expand to ban the entry of nonimmigrants in these categories,"

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2020/06/12/speculation-mounts-as-list-of-us-work-visas-to-be-restricted-grows/#1a2490265b1c

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-12/trump-immigration-order-may-halt-work-visa-entries-until-fall

 

I'm trying to be optimistic but to be completely honest I'm devastated right now. My girlfriend was supposed to be here on her J-1 two months ago as she as a 15-month traineeship set up with a German/American school here in San Francisco. Call me nuts, but at this point I'm convinced Trump has intentionally kept the Schengen travel ban in place to prevent H1/L1/J1 visa holders from entering before this order comes out. In addition, the justification for this executive order (saying we need to ban all these visas temporarily to protect American jobs) completely contradicts Trump's effusive comments about the economy rebounding and unemployment dropping. 

 

Anyway, just wanted to make sure you were aware of what's going on and also needed to vent a bit. Sending you my best and really hope this won't affect your ability to re-enter the US. It sounds like the order is going to come out on Monday so hopefully we'll know more in a day or so. 

[Laku 5]

On 6/5/2020 at 5:24 PM, ek1357 said:

Yep, my fingers are tightly crossed for that. I also am holding a little hope that the land border was closed very early and if they wanted to suspend air traffic it would have been done hand in hand.. but everything is subject to change. 

Q

[Ja3germeister 90]

5 hours ago, jvette said:

 

Congrats on booking your flights and trying to make this work Talia! When I saw your post and realized you're coming in on an L-1 with your husband I wanted to share this article to make sure you were aware of what's going on. I'm surprised that nobody's posted about it in here but that's probably because it's not going to apply to K-1s. Apologies as I'm not trying to cause any more stress than everyone's already dealing with, but if this actually goes through (everything is just rumors so far but the sources are supposedly pretty credible) it's going to be an absolute shitshow. 

 

"There is speculation that the expanded proclamation could bar entry to the U.S. for H-1B, H-2B, L-1 and J-1 applicants pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act sections 212(f) and 215(a). More exactly, the proclamation is expected to expand to ban the entry of nonimmigrants in these categories,"

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2020/06/12/speculation-mounts-as-list-of-us-work-visas-to-be-restricted-grows/#1a2490265b1c

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-12/trump-immigration-order-may-halt-work-visa-entries-until-fall

 

I'm trying to be optimistic but to be completely honest I'm devastated right now. My girlfriend was supposed to be here on her J-1 two months ago as she as a 15-month traineeship set up with a German/American school here in San Francisco. Call me nuts, but at this point I'm convinced Trump has intentionally kept the Schengen travel ban in place to prevent H1/L1/J1 visa holders from entering before this order comes out. In addition, the justification for this executive order (saying we need to ban all these visas temporarily to protect American jobs) completely contradicts Trump's effusive comments about the economy rebounding and unemployment dropping. 

 

Anyway, just wanted to make sure you were aware of what's going on and also needed to vent a bit. Sending you my best and really hope this won't affect your ability to re-enter the US. It sounds like the order is going to come out on Monday so hopefully we'll know more in a day or so. 

I've read this and I'm devastated too if the orange man is actually going to do this. I literally only have 5 more days left I really cannot use this now

[Ja3germeister 90]

5 hours ago, jvette said:

 

Congrats on booking your flights and trying to make this work Talia! When I saw your post and realized you're coming in on an L-1 with your husband I wanted to share this article to make sure you were aware of what's going on. I'm surprised that nobody's posted about it in here but that's probably because it's not going to apply to K-1s. Apologies as I'm not trying to cause any more stress than everyone's already dealing with, but if this actually goes through (everything is just rumors so far but the sources are supposedly pretty credible) it's going to be an absolute shitshow. 

 

"There is speculation that the expanded proclamation could bar entry to the U.S. for H-1B, H-2B, L-1 and J-1 applicants pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act sections 212(f) and 215(a). More exactly, the proclamation is expected to expand to ban the entry of nonimmigrants in these categories,"

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2020/06/12/speculation-mounts-as-list-of-us-work-visas-to-be-restricted-grows/#1a2490265b1c

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-12/trump-immigration-order-may-halt-work-visa-entries-until-fall

 

I'm trying to be optimistic but to be completely honest I'm devastated right now. My girlfriend was supposed to be here on her J-1 two months ago as she as a 15-month traineeship set up with a German/American school here in San Francisco. Call me nuts, but at this point I'm convinced Trump has intentionally kept the Schengen travel ban in place to prevent H1/L1/J1 visa holders from entering before this order comes out. In addition, the justification for this executive order (saying we need to ban all these visas temporarily to protect American jobs) completely contradicts Trump's effusive comments about the economy rebounding and unemployment dropping. 

 

Anyway, just wanted to make sure you were aware of what's going on and also needed to vent a bit. Sending you my best and really hope this won't affect your ability to re-enter the US. It sounds like the order is going to come out on Monday so hopefully we'll know more in a day or so. 

This is some positivity for you and me

[jvette 13]

15 minutes ago, Ja3germeister said:

I've read this and I'm devastated too if the orange man is actually going to do this. I literally only have 5 more days left I really cannot use this now

Are you in Mexico right now meaning you've got 5 days left until you depart for the US? If so, I've read that while the EO will likely be announced on Monday it supposedly will not go into effect until the 24th. Obviously just speculation but hope that brings you some relief if you are currently in Mexico

[Ja3germeister 90]

1 minute ago, jvette said:

Are you in Mexico right now meaning you've got 5 days left until you depart for the US? If so, I've read that while the EO will likely be announced on Monday it supposedly will not go into effect until the 24th. Obviously just speculation but hope that brings you some relief if you are currently in Mexico

Yes I'm in Mexico. Thank you for the positive message 😁

[jvette 13]

This is great and thank you for sharing. I really hope this does not go through the way the media is speculating it will. I met my girlfriend in Thailand 19 months ago and we've been long distance ever since going back and forth between Germany and SF. We landed on the J1 as a way to close the gap and I cannot even begin to explain how much work it was to find her a trainee position and then do the interview and get the actual visa. She was supposed to be here two months ago and it feels like the cards just continue to get stacked against us as time goes on. I haven't seen her since January and this has been beyond painful....

 

3 minutes ago, Ja3germeister said:

This is some positivity for you and me

 

[Leah88 192]

35 minutes ago, jvette said:

Are you in Mexico right now meaning you've got 5 days left until you depart for the US? If so, I've read that while the EO will likely be announced on Monday it supposedly will not go into effect until the 24th. Obviously just speculation but hope that brings you some relief if you are currently in Mexico

How do you even know about those dates? Seems oddly specific