Trump Bars Entry From 19 Countries in the Broadest Travel Ban of His Second Term

On June 4, 2025, President Trump signed a proclamation restricting entry into the United States by nationals of 19 countries, effective 12:01 a.m. EDT on June 9. Entry and visa issuance were fully suspended for nationals of 12 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Seven more faced partial restrictions barring immigrant visas plus B-1/B-2, F, M and J visas: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. The proclamation cited sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and exempted lawful permanent residents, existing refugees and asylees, diplomats, Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders, immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, and athletes traveling to the Olympics or World Cup.

The order restricts entry by nationality rather than by individual finding, extending a mechanism the Supreme Court upheld in Trump v. Hawaii to a substantially larger set of countries. The American Immigration Council estimated it could block roughly 34,000 immigrant visas and more than 125,000 non-immigrant visas each year, affecting families of the roughly 4.3 million people from those countries already in the United States.

The proclamation took effect as scheduled on June 9, 2025, and the administration expanded the covered list later in the year.