US plans to require COVID-19 shots for foreign travelers

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Wonder how this will affect LPRs.
 

 

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-travel-coronavirus-pandemic-a312ebaf72844c5b75246fb10b0f2ba7

 

US plans to require COVID-19 shots for foreign travelers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking the first steps toward requiring nearly all foreign visitors to the U.S. to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, a White House official said Wednesday.

The requirement would come as part of the administration’s phased approach to easing travel restrictions for foreign citizens to the country. No timeline has yet been determined, as interagency working groups study how and when to safely move toward resuming normal travel. Eventually all foreign citizens entering the country, with some limited exceptions, are expected to need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter the U.S.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the policy under development.

The Biden administration has kept in place travel restrictions that have severely curtailed international trips to the U.S., citing the spread of the delta variant of the virus. Under the rules, non-U.S. residents who have been to China, the European Schengen area, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa and India in the prior 14 days are prohibited from entering the U.S. 

All travelers to the U.S., regardless of vaccination status, are required to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days of air travel to the country.

The Biden administration has faced pressure to lift some restrictions from affected allies, the air travel industry and families who have been kept separated from loved ones by the rules. Many have complained that the travel restrictions don’t reflect the current virus situation — particularly as caseloads in the U.S. are worse than in many of the prohibited nations.

Airlines for America, a trade group for major U.S. airlines, said it was pleased by reports that the administration plans to make it easier for more foreign travelers to enter the country if they have been vaccinated.

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AP writer David Koenig contributed.

 

 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

cept the illegals pouring across our border 

[jg121783 3,915]

Word is Biden wants to impose a vaccine mandate for anyone who wants to fly US citizen or not. We are planning a trip to visit my wife's family next year or as soon as the Philippines lifts their covid restrictions. She hasn't seen them in 5 years and they have never met our 3 year old but if vaccines are gonna be required we aren't going I guess.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

4 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

cept the illegals pouring across our border 

Please use the PC words, lest ye find yourself in a sting behind VJ bars.

 

Those are simply misunderstood, misplaced immigrants who deserve better.

[Dashinka 24,480]

13 minutes ago, LIBrty4all said:

Please use the PC words, lest ye find yourself in a sting behind VJ bars.

 

Those are simply misunderstood, misplaced immigrants who deserve better.

He doesn't worry...Platinum Plan and all. 

 

As to the topic at hand, I wonder if they will accept all vaccines, or just certain ones.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

We are taking our third covid era trip to Canada  next week and we will not get in without the vaccine, a negative test within 72 hours and another test on entry. Our citizenship provides no exemption. It just seems like common sense. When I come home to the US (land crossing), no one asks any basic screening questions and provide no guidance on quarantine or testing.  

 

We are way to lax imo. 

 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2021 by Crtcl Rice Theory

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

3 hours ago, jg121783 said:

Word is Biden wants to impose a vaccine mandate for anyone who wants to fly US citizen or not. We are planning a trip to visit my wife's family next year or as soon as the Philippines lifts their covid restrictions. She hasn't seen them in 5 years and they have never met our 3 year old but if vaccines are gonna be required we aren't going I guess.

I don't want to fly with a tube full of unvaccinated people, but to each their own.

 

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

15 minutes ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

We are taking our third covid era trip to Canada  next week and we will not get in without the vaccine, a negative test within 72 hours and another test on entry. Our citizenship provides no exemption. It just seems like common sense. When I come home to the US (land crossing), no one asks any basic screening questions and provide no guidance on quarantine or testing.  

 

We are way to lax imo. 

 

You are most welcome for the freedoms that our country provides your family.  Enjoy them!

15 minutes ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

I don't want to fly with a tube full of unvaccinated people, but to each their own.

 

Safest place to be, actually.  Much safer than ANY hospital or grocery store.

[jg121783 3,915]

13 minutes ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

I don't want to fly with a tube full of unvaccinated people, but to each their own.

 

You can always choose not to fly then. People's paranoia doesn't give them the right to force a medical treatment on me or my family in order for us to travel.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

4 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

You can always choose not to fly then. People's paranoia doesn't give them the right to force a medical treatment on me or my family in order for us to travel.

It does if they are a liberal.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

10 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

You can always choose not to fly then. People's paranoia doesn't give them the right to force a medical treatment on me or my family in order for us to travel.

You are afraid of the vaccine, and that is not paranoia?

[yuna628 9,671]

16 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

You can always choose not to fly then. People's paranoia doesn't give them the right to force a medical treatment on me or my family in order for us to travel.

To enter the USA on a variety of visas, immigrants are required to subject themselves to all manner of medical exams, tests, and vaccinations whether they like it or not. They are required to jump through a million hoops, bureaucracy, background checks - all without a choice. Immigrants are more vaccinated (without a choice) than US citizens. And US citizens will also have to start getting used to vaccine, testing, or quarantine requirements of other countries too. I'm fine with the requirement if that's what gets air travel moving again. Goodness knows we haven't seen our family in quite some time now.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

11 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

To enter the USA on a variety of visas, immigrants are required to subject themselves to all manner of medical exams, tests, and vaccinations whether they like it or not. They are required to jump through a million hoops, bureaucracy, background checks - all without a choice. Immigrants are more vaccinated (without a choice) than US citizens. And US citizens will also have to start getting used to vaccine, testing, or quarantine requirements of other countries too. I'm fine with the requirement if that's what gets air travel moving again. Goodness knows we haven't seen our family in quite some time now.

Which vaccinations are immigrants required to have that USC are not?  (hyperbole much, Yuna?)

 

And how many vaccines have the 300,000 people who have crossed our Southern border this year been forced to get?

Edited August 6, 2021 by LIBrty4all

[yuna628 9,671]

Just now, LIBrty4all said:

Which vaccinations are immigrants required to have that USC are not?

 

And how many vaccines have the 300,000 people who have crossed our Southern border this year been forced to get?

You are on an immigration forum, I'd suggest that you know the answer to that question already.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

1 minute ago, yuna628 said:

You are on an immigration forum, I'd suggest that you know the answer to that question already.

I do. And as such, know you are making stuff up.