Our panel of experts will explain how various 2025–26 presidential travel proclamations and related USCIS, DOS, and CBP policies affect visa issuance, consular processing, port-of-entry decisions, and benefit application adjudications. They will provide attorneys with practical strategies to navigate entry restrictions, consular limitations, immigrant visa (IV) logistics, inspection risks, and USCIS scrutiny. Exceptions, waivers, and risk mitigation approaches for clients from restricted or partially restricted countries will all be discussed in detail.

Featured Topics

• Overview of full vs. partial presidential entry restrictions (i.e., travel bans), including nationality triggers, documentation requirements, and exceptions/waivers
• DOS implementation trends, including visa issuance suspensions, shortened validity, exceptions, waivers, and the January 21, 2026, IV pause
• National Visa Center (NVC) and IV processing logistics, including residence-based post assignments and designated processing posts
• CBP inspection risks, secondary screening factors, and discrepancies between visa issuance and admissibility outcomes
• How INA §212(f) and country-based USCIS review influence AOS adjudications, advance parole, and work authorization
• The latest updates on legal challenges: Will these proclamations and policies hold?

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Enjoy access to free seminar recordings as an AILA Member. AILA encourages live attendance for those wishing to ask the speaker questions. Recordings will be available approximately two weeks after the live event date. AILA members can access these seminars, with no CLE credit, for free.