Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110
§445 Travel on Vessels of Belligerent States
Title 22 › CHAPTER 9 — FOREIGN WARS, WAR MATERIALS, AND NEUTRALITY › SUBCHAPTER II — NEUTRALITY › § 445
Summary
The President can bar U.S. citizens from traveling on ships of any country he names by issuing a proclamation. Citizens may only travel on those ships if they follow rules the President sets. If the President later cancels the proclamation for a country, the travel ban stops for future trips. But people who broke the ban before it was canceled can still be punished.
Full Legal Text
Title 22, §445
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(a)Proscription by Presidential proclamation
Whenever the President shall have issued a proclamation under the authority of section 441(a) of this title it shall thereafter be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to travel on any vessel of any state named in such proclamation, except in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed.
(b)Revocation of proclamation; effect
Whenever any proclamation issued under the authority of section 441(a) of this title shall have been revoked with respect to any state the provisions of this section shall thereupon cease to apply with respect to such state, except as to offenses committed prior to such revocation.
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22 U.S.C. § 445
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110