# 2025-10669: Tightening Borders: US Bans Risky Foreign Visitors for Safety

2025-10669, Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals To Protect the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-06-10, effective 2025-06-09; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10669
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-10669
- Title: Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals To Protect the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 24497
- Published: 2025-06-10
- Effective: 2025-06-09
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Tightening Borders: US Bans Risky Foreign Visitors for Safety

## Summary

The U.S. is tightening rules to keep out foreign visitors who might threaten our safety or national security. This affects people from certain countries with poor background checks, slowing or stopping their entry until better screening is in place. These changes start soon and aim to protect Americans without wasting taxpayer money.

## Effects PRIA read

- Full Entry Ban for 12 Countries: cost, high. The proclamation fully suspends immigrant and nonimmigrant entry for nationals of 12 named countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The restriction takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern daylight time on June…
- Partial Entry Suspensions for Seven Countries: cost, high. The proclamation partially suspends entry for nationals of seven named countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. For those countries, immigrant entry and entry as nonimmigrants on B-1, B-2, B-1/B-2, F, M, and J visas is suspended, and consular officers are dir…
- Exceptions, Waivers, and Protected Categories: benefit, medium. The proclamation lists categorical exceptions and allows case-by-case waivers. Exceptions include lawful permanent residents, dual nationals traveling on a passport from a non-designated country, specified diplomatic and certain official visa classes (A, G, C-2, C-3, NATO categories), athletes for…
- Who Is Not Affected and Visa Non-Revocation Rule: benefit, medium. The suspensions apply only to nationals of the designated countries who are outside the United States on June 9, 2025 and who do not have a valid visa on that date; nationals inside the United States or with a valid visa on that date are not covered by the suspensions. The proclamation also states…

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## Sources
- [2025-10669 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/10/2025-10669/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and)
- [2025-10669 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-10/pdf/2025-10669.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10669 (as of 2026-06-08).