President Trump Reportedly Considering New Travel Ban Impacting Over 40 Countries

President Trump is reportedly considering implementing travel restrictions for citizens of dozens of countries.

According to The Guardian, an internal memo lists over 40 countries into three tiers for potential travel restrictions.

The tiers include:

• red list
• orange list
• yellow list

The red list consists of countries whose citizens would face a complete ban.

TRUMP’S NEW TRAVEL BAN TO RESTRICT 43 COUNTRIES

Trump is set to implement sweeping travel restrictions targeting 43 nations, with varying levels of bans based on security concerns.

The Red List (total ban) includes Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea,… https://t.co/m4K5PzH8Ks pic.twitter.com/jz894MYRcV

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Trump is set to implement sweeping travel restrictions targeting 43 nations, with varying levels of bans based on security concerns.

The Red List (total ban) includes Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

The Orange List (restricted travel) affects Pakistan, Russia, Myanmar, and others—limiting visas to select business travelers.

The Yellow List (warnings issued) gives 22 countries 60 days to fix security gaps or face stricter bans.

Trump says the move is to protect Americans from terrorists, criminals, and those exploiting immigration laws.

NEW – Proposed travel ban countries list from Trump administration includes nations whose citizens may face US entry restrictions. List subject to change in final order. pic.twitter.com/ovL1a9qVPf

— Byte (@ByteEcosystem) March 15, 2025

From The Guardian:

The list has yet to be approved by the administration, including the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and could be amended, officials told the outlet.

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The memo follows an executive order issued on 20 January that requires intensified security vetting of any foreigners seeking admission to the US to detect national security threats, and directed several cabinet members to submit a list of countries for partial or full suspension because their “vetting and screening information is so deficient”.

A draft list of travel restrictions for people from failed, hostile & unstable countries has angered leftists who want open borders. They falsely call it a Muslim & race ban even though Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Cuba, Myanmar & many others are on it. https://t.co/Ifxlx44X6G

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 15, 2025

The Trump administration is reportedly considering a three-tiered travel ban targeting 43 countries, including 11 that would be hit with an outright ban on all travel to the United States. MORE: https://t.co/YpBrU3WNvM pic.twitter.com/fGgmNrFwmy

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Per The New York Times:

Officials at embassies and in regional bureaus at the State Department, and security specialists at other departments and intelligence agencies, have been reviewing the draft. They are providing comment about whether descriptions of deficiencies in particular countries are accurate or whether there are policy reasons — like not risking disruption to cooperation on some other priority — to reconsider including some.

The draft proposal also included an “orange” list of 10 countries for which travel would be restricted but not cut off. In those cases, affluent business travelers might be allowed to enter, but not people traveling on immigrant or tourist visas.

Citizens on that list would also be subjected to mandatory in-person interviews in order to receive a visa. It included Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.

When he took office on Jan. 20, Mr. Trump issued an executive order requiring the State Department to identify countries “for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.”

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He gave the department 60 days to finish a report for the White House with that list, meaning it is due next week. The State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs has taken the lead, and the order said the Justice and Homeland Security Departments and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence were to assist with the effort.