Donald Trump’s government is rumoured to be planning one other spate of travel bans targeting travellers from dozens of nations.
The US President is anticipated to ban people from 43 countries within the wake of the dramatic Russia-Ukraine war ceasefire talks.
Trump’s latest string of 2025 travel restrictions lists countries like Iran, Syria and North Korea, but additionally Russian allies like Belarus and Turkmenistan, Reuters reports citing a leaked memo and sources.
The countries were organised into three different groups facing various levels of visa restrictions, including a full visa suspension, the Recent York Times first reported.
Here’s a roundup of the countries vulnerable to a US travel ban.
Map shows countries Donald Trump could ban
List of travel ban countries
Listed here are the countries where all travel has been banned:
- Yemen
- Bhutan
- Cuba
- Iran
- Libya
- North Korea
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Syria
- Venezuela
And travellers from these 10 countries are expected to have their visas restricted:
- Belarus
- Eritrea
- Haiti
- Laos
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Sierra Leone
- South Sudan
- Turkmenistan
Finally, these countries can be given 60 days to deal with issues comparable to passport security and alleged selling of citizenships to people from banned countries, Mail Online reports:
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Chad
- Republic of Congo
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Dominica
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gambia
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Vanuatu
- Zimbabwe
While a number of the countries – a lot of them Muslim-majority – had been on Trump’s first-term travel ban list, others were recent additions, comparable to Bhutan. It’s unclear why the small, peaceful country with giant neighbours China and India was on the list.
The US State Department has not immediately responded to a request for a comment.
A US official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there might be changes on the list, which has not yet been approved by the administration,in line with the Recent York Times.
Meanwhile, Trump’s unofficial right hand figure, Elon Musk, has made headlines as the top of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tasked with ‘cutting’ government staff.
Trump said yesterday the ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine are ‘superb.’ He pleaded with Vladimir Putin to spare the lives of ‘hundreds of Ukrainian troops’ who’re ‘surrounded by the Russian military and in a really bad and vulnerable position.’
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If not preoccupied with the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire proposal, Trump has been sowing uncertainty amongst his neighbours after incendiary remarks, including in Canada and Greenland, which has been colonised by Denmark for the reason that 18th century.
He said Canada must be a US state and that the 2 neighbours would create ‘probably the most incredible country visually.’
Secure to say, this hasn’t gone down well with Canadians. The country’s recent PM Mark Carney, who was sworn in yesterday after Justin Trudeau’s resignation, said Trump’s talk is ‘crazy’ and that Canada will ‘never ever’ be the 51st US state.
Trump reiterated his intentions to annex Greenland, saying he thinks ‘it’ll occur.’ Meanwhile in Greenland, a pro-independence party won a general election on Wednesday, which could set wheels in motion to separate the Arctic nation from Denmark.
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As a substitute of improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, the US administration rushed to perform immigration raids across cities throughout the first hours of Trump’s leadership.
It sparked fear amongst undocumented migrants in so-called sanctuary cities, while US universities advised foreign students to return to campus before Trump’s inauguration.
Meanwhile, the US economy faces the chance of recession – a stark difference from the landscape Trump was promising to voters during last 12 months’s election.
JP Morgan analysts have upgraded the potential of recession from 30% to 40% now, warning that the US policy is ’tilting away from growth,’ BBC News reports.
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