Written on 30^th January 2017

USA: Immigration Presidential Executive Order

Update: 1 Feb 2017 @ 11:27

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has held conversations with the US Government and as a result we can clarify that no UK or UK dual nationals will be affected in the US Immigration Presidential Executive Order, regardless of country of birth or whether they hold another passport/nationality, travelling from the UK.

The Presidential executive order only applies to individuals travelling from one of the seven named countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Please contact your dedicated Travel Executive for any further information regarding this matter or visit www.gov.uk.

The Appointment Group

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Update: 30 Jan 2017 @ 11:02

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has held conversations with the US Government and as a result we can clarify that:

• The Presidential executive order only applies to individuals travelling from one of the seven named countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen).
• If you are travelling to the US from anywhere other than one of those countries (for instance, the UK) the executive order does not apply to you and you will experience no extra checks regardless of your nationality or your place of birth.
• If you are a UK national who happens to be travelling from one of those countries to the US, then the order does not apply to you – even if you were born in one of those countries.
• If you are a dual citizen of one of those countries travelling to the US from OUTSIDE those countries then the order does not apply to you.

The only dual nationals who might have extra checks are those coming from one of the seven countries themselves – for example a UK-Libya dual national coming from Libya to the US.

The US has reaffirmed its strong commitment to the expeditious processing of all travellers from the United Kingdom.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will issue further updates as appropriate.

Please contact your dedicated Travel Executive for any further information regarding this matter.

The Appointment Group