White House Releases Fact Sheet on Expansion of Travel Restrictions to Additional Countries

The White House released a fact sheet on the 12/16/25 Presidential Proclamation expanding the travel restrictions in the 6/4/25 Presidential Proclamation (also known as the travel ban) to new countries. The new proclamation imposes full restrictions on 5 more countries—Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria—as well as individuals with Palestinian Authority-issued travel documentation. It also added partial restrictions for 15 new countries: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These changes are effective 1/1/26.