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A Palestinian man at the Rafah border crossing holds his Palestinian Authority-issued passport on June 12, 2015. (Aaed Tayeh/Flash90)
December 16, 2025, 11:52 pm
US imposes travel ban on Palestinian Authority passport holders, citing war, terror
Nationals of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria also banned, plus 12 countries already on list; US was already reportedly rejecting Palestinians’ visa requests
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump pumps a fist as he boards Air Force One before departing for Camp David from the Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, June 8, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
June 9, 2025, 7:49 am
Trump travel ban comes into effect, with citizens from 12 nations barred from US
Move does not apply to athletes competing in 2026 soccer World Cup, which US is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico; diplomats from targeted countries also excluded
By AFP
US President Donald Trump points to supporters as he departs the White House in Washington on June 6, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
June 7, 2025, 2:15 pm
Tehran says Trump’s new travel ban reflects ‘deep hostility’ toward Iranians, Muslims
Iran says decision a sign of a ‘racist mentality’ after US president banned entry to travelers from Islamic Republic and 11 other nations, citing attack on Colorado hostage rally
By AFP and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during a summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House, June 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
June 6, 2025, 2:44 pm
Trump’s new travel ban will block ‘those in need of real refuge,’ says AJC
Opposition from one of world’s largest Jewish groups comes after president blocks entry by citizens from 12 countries, cites Boulder attack; other Jewish groups signal unease over his policies
By Andrew Lapin
US President Donald Trump speaks during a summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, June 4, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)
June 5, 2025, 12:21 pm
Trump bans citizens of 12 countries from entering US, ties move to attack on Colorado rally
US president blacklists Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen; citizens of 7 more nations partially restricted
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Protesters against US President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations stand in front of the Bradley Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
March 15, 2025, 11:19 am
Trump administration weighs travel ban or restrictions for dozens of countries
New York Times reports Bhutan on 43-nation list for unclear reasons, Russians may also see some limits
By ToI Staff and Reuters
Dahouk Idriss shows a page on her passport during an interview with AFP at her house in the Syrian capital Damascus on January 16, 2021. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
January 19, 2021, 11:41 am
After years of waiting to see their children, Mideast moms count days to Biden
US president-elect has vowed to overturn travel ban from Muslim-majority countries; Syrian woman: ‘I’m probably more impatient for Biden to become president than he is himself’
By Maher Al-Mounes
A passenger wears a protective mask at Adolfo Suarez-Barajas international airport on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, March 11, 2020. (Bernat Armangue/AP)
March 12, 2020, 1:18 pm
Locked out: Europeans grapple with new US travel ban
Trump administration order to block arrivals from ‘Schengen Area’ of Europe means North America is now off-limits to citizens of dozens of countries
By John Leicester
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, April 30, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 31, 2020, 11:20 pm
Trump limits immigration from 6 countries in election-year push
US president to impose new visa restrictions on citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania, but stops short of total travel ban
By Colleen Long and NOMAAN MERCHANT
US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/via JTA)
April 12, 2019, 2:54 pm
18 Jewish groups urge Congress to pass bill to end Trump’s travel ban
After Democratic members introduce legislation aimed at repealing president’s immigration efforts, liberal groups led by HIAS send letter stating they stand by ‘Muslim neighbors’
By Josefin Dolsten
In this December 2018 photo released by the Council on American Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley, Shaima Swileh, of Yemen, holds her dying 2-year old son Abdullah Hassan at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, California, USA. (Council on American Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley via AP)
December 30, 2018, 3:51 pm
Boy whose Yemeni mom fought US travel ban to see him dies
Abdullah Hassan, 2, laid to rest days after his mother wins year-long legal battle to bid him final farewell
By DAISY NGUYEN
This recent but undated photo, released Dec. 17, 2018, by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Sacramento, Calif., shows Ali Hassan kissing his dying 2-year-old son Abdullah in a Sacramento hospital (Council on American-Islamic Relations via AP)
December 19, 2018, 9:56 am
Yemeni mom to fly to US to give dying 2-year-old son a kiss
After a year-long battle, Shaima Swileh, barred from entry under Trump travel ban, can visit her child who is undergoing treatment for a genetic brain disorder
By JULIE WATSON
Nadia Batool Bokhari, a Pakistani journalist forced to seek refuge in the United States because of her job. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2018, 2:34 am
Female Muslim journalist persecuted in Pakistan reboots life in the US with HIAS
The onetime Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society applies humanitarian Jewish values to ‘strangers’ as a powerful mix of climate change and conflict drive migration to new heights
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Activists march and rally against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration's immigration policies, across the street from the ICE offices at Federal Plaza, June 29, 2018 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
June 30, 2018, 5:21 pm
Over 600 marches underway across US over Trump immigration policy
Thousands of protesters take to the streets, motivated by accounts in recent weeks of children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border
By AP
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
June 26, 2018, 8:40 pm
Jewish groups decry Supreme Court upholding of Trump travel ban
Leading immigrant rights organization HIAS expresses ‘disappointment’; Reform Jewish leader calls on Congress to ‘push back against offensive and dangerous policy’
By JTA and ToI Staff
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