US Travel Restrictions: Pressure is increasing on the US government to lift the travel restrictions imposed on the Corona virus. Due to these restrictions, people associated with the travel industry are also suffering a lot.
US President Joe Biden
US Covid Related Travel Restrictions: The Biden administration is under increasing pressure to ease travel restrictions for international tourists. These restrictions were imposed to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic. With Europe opening its borders to US tourists and vaccination rates rising in the US, public health experts and travel industry groups are saying it is the right time to restart international travel (US Travel Restrictions Due to Covid 19) . US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that America is taking the advice of health officials in this matter.
According to sources, a group of US and European officials are working together on a new agreement. Critics say that the administration needs to move quickly on this issue. Concerns have been expressed about the loss due to the travel ban in 2021 for the US due to the lack of tourists and foreign students in international trade, summer holidays. Steve Schur, president of the Travel Technology Association, said the “time for the Biden administration’s travel ban” is over. We believe that it is now possible that international travel to low-risk countries should be resumed.
Foreign travel is largely closed
Travel from abroad in America is largely closed. Only US citizens, family members of US citizens and international students are allowed to return from abroad, everything else is prohibited. The restrictions apply to travelers from China, Iran, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and South Africa. Along with this, in April, President Biden banned travel from India as the cases of COVID-19 increased here (US Travel Restrictions by Country 2021). But experts say that it is not appropriate to remove the ban from countries on the basis of corona virus infection because the delta variant has spread in the US.
Debate on ‘pick and choose policy’
They say that a ‘pick and choose policy will be a complete failure’. Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law, said, ‘Even if you try to choose precisely, there will be new variants in those countries by the time this policy is in place. may be exposed. Then you have to change the exemption list, so actually this policy is not possible.’ Gostin urged the administration to think more creatively about implementing measures that allow international travel.
Vaccination is being told the safe way
He said ‘the safest way for a traveler to come to the US is to be fully vaccinated (US Travel Restrictions From Europe). I think it’s important to use a vaccine passport system and if someone hasn’t had a vaccine, a COVID test, to make sure that traveler doesn’t have COVID and the US is safe. The European Union opened its borders to American tourists last month, but the US has yet to make any such announcement.
damage to the domestic economy
The US is the largest global travel and tourism market, according to data from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), adding $105 billion to the domestic economy could be questioned if travel does not resume. On June 25, during a press conference in Paris with the French foreign minister, Blinken said, “We cannot give a date on this.” I can tell you that we are working very actively on this right now and we – France, like our other partners in Europe are both anxious and eager to restore travel. But we have to be guided by science. We have to be guided by medical expertise.’
Disappointment among people associated with the travel industry
Due to this delay, the travel industry is very disappointed. Schur of the Travel Technology Association criticized the administration for moving too slowly. He said, ‘We are urging the administration to prepare at least one road map. I know that some working groups have been constituted for this, but we feel that there is still a lot of delay. This needs to happen as soon as possible (US Travel Restrictions by Country). There is a gloomy atmosphere for the industry right now. Whereas facts and data show that inbound international travel is possible.
time for more creative solutions
The same NAFSA senior director, Rachel Banks, said that it is time to come up with more creative solutions to ensure international students come to the US by mid-August. According to NAFSA, international students contributed $38.7 billion to the US economy during the 2019 and 2020 academic years, a decline of $1.8 billion from the previous year, directly related to the pandemic. Students with valid visas in categories F-1 and M-1 do not need to contact the embassy before traveling to the US and can arrive 30 days prior to the start of their studies.
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