Proclamation 10949 was an earlier presidential order by Donald Trump, issued under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, that created the current framework of country‑specific U.S. entry bans and limits. It identified 12 “high‑risk” countries (including Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen) for full restrictions on most immigration and many types of temporary visas, and put narrower, partial limits on several others. The new Proclamation builds on—not replaces—Proclamation 10949: it keeps all of 10949’s full restrictions in place, adjusts some of the older partial restrictions (for example, lifting Turkmenistan’s non‑immigrant visa ban but turning Laos and Sierra Leone from partial to full bans), and then adds more countries and document types into the same restriction system.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry/Exit Overstay Report is an annual report that estimates how many foreign visitors stayed in the U.S. longer than they were legally allowed to. It looks at people admitted as temporary visitors (non‑immigrants) who were expected to leave in a given fiscal year, and then checks whether there is a recorded departure or a legal status change. The core data come from: (1) the Arrival and Departure Information System (ADIS), which holds electronic records of people’s entries and exits by air and sea, and (2) other DHS systems that track immigration status changes (such as student/exchange‑visitor systems for F, M, and J visa holders). Using those records, DHS calculates, by country and by visa category, how many people appear to have overstayed and what share they are of all expected departures.
These are all types of temporary (non‑immigrant) visas, each for a different purpose:
Citizenship‑by‑Investment (CBI) programs are schemes some countries run where foreign nationals can obtain that country’s citizenship (and passport) by making a large qualifying investment—typically in real estate or a government fund—rather than by living there for many years. U.S. and international financial‑crime bodies have warned that weakly controlled CBI programs can be abused by criminals or sanctioned individuals to obtain a new passport, hide their true nationality or background, and move money or themselves more easily. For example, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has documented cases where people used St. Kitts and Nevis CBI passports to evade sanctions and facilitate illicit financial activity. The Proclamation flags CBI because if a country sells citizenship with limited vetting, U.S. authorities may have less confidence in that country’s passports and identity documents, and people from high‑risk regions could try to use CBI passports to get around U.S. travel restrictions.
According to the fact sheet, lawful permanent residents (LPRs, or green‑card holders) are explicitly exempt from the new entry restrictions, so they should still be allowed to board flights and be admitted to the U.S. as usual (subject to the normal inspection and any individual issues in their record). The Proclamation also keeps an exception for people who already hold valid visas when the new rules take effect—so the bans mainly apply to issuing new visas and admitting new travelers in the affected categories, not to canceling visas that are already valid. This structure mirrors earlier Trump travel proclamations, which similarly exempted LPRs and people with valid existing visas.
Under earlier versions of these travel restrictions, there were relatively broad automatic exceptions (“carve‑outs”) for certain family‑based immigrant visas, especially for very close relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent residents (like spouses and minor children). The fact sheet says these carve‑outs are now being “narrowed,” which means fewer family relationships will automatically qualify for an exception and more relatives will either be blocked or forced to seek a discretionary waiver. In practical terms, U.S. citizens and LPRs sponsoring close family from the listed countries may find that only the closest relationships (for example, spouses and minor children) are still automatically exempt, while others (such as some parents, adult children, or siblings) could be subject to the ban and need waivers. Sponsorship of relatives from countries not covered by the Proclamation is not affected.
“Case‑by‑case waivers” are safety‑valve exceptions built into the Proclamation. A person from a restricted country first applies for a visa or for entry in the usual way. If they are otherwise eligible but barred only because of the Proclamation, a consular officer (at a U.S. embassy or consulate) or a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer at the border can recommend or grant a waiver if strict criteria are met. In earlier Trump proclamations, those criteria were: (1) denying entry would cause the person undue hardship, (2) their entry would not pose a national‑security or public‑safety risk, and (3) their entry would be in the U.S. national interest. The decision is discretionary and made within the executive branch—there is no formal court appeal of a denial, though people can reapply or present new evidence.
The excerpted fact sheet does not state the exact effective date or end date of the new restrictions, and the full text of the Proclamation is needed to know that precisely. In past Trump travel proclamations, similar restrictions generally took effect a short time (often a few weeks) after the signing date and were written to last indefinitely, subject to periodic security reviews and possible later modification or revocation by another presidential order. It is reasonable to expect a similar pattern here, but the specific dates and duration for this Proclamation cannot be determined from the information currently available.