"They may not have a lab in their home village and won't necessarily have the time to go when they get to the airport city or be able to afford the expense." He also notes that it can be a challenge to find a vaccine clinic in an unfamiliar city, noting that travelers from his birthplace, Kashmir, could find it "hard to do if they don't know someone or where to go." "People in many low-income countries have to cover so much distance to get to the airport," Nabi says.
"For many countries, COVID testing continues to be limited and inaccessible," says Nabi, "often a result of low resources or ongoing political conflict that makes widespread testing difficult."Īnd even if tests are available in theory, that doesn't always make it easy to get one. Vaccinated foreign travelers have to take a test within three days of their flight, but unvaccinated travelers have to do their testing within a single day of travel with a product that provides results in a timely enough fashion to present at the airport. That's where the "burdensome" and "exclusionary" elements come in, says Nabi.įirst of all there's the matter of getting a COVID-19 test before flying to the U.S. The perhaps to-do list for the unvaccinatedīut just being on the "exception" list doesn't guarantee easy entry. Persons whose entry would be in the national interest, as determined by the Secretary of State, Secretary of Transportation, or Secretary of Homeland Security (or their designees).Sea crew members traveling with to a C-1 and D nonimmigrant visa.Armed Forces or their spouses or children (under 18 years of age) Persons issued a humanitarian or emergency exception (such as someone evacuated for medical reasons or accompanying someone who will be getting life-saving treatment in the U.S.).Participants in certain COVID-19 vaccine trials.People who are allergic to the COVID-19 vaccine.Persons on diplomatic or official foreign government travel.Other exceptions for unvaccinated travelers include: Currently, there are 50 countries on the list, 34 of them in Africa. That list will be regularly updated, according to the State Department. Perhaps the most sweeping exception is for travelers with passports from any country where fewer than 10% of the country's population has been vaccinated. is still possible – but only if they meet one of the conditions for an exception as detailed on lists from the U.S. According to current information from Our World in Data, 49.4% of the world's population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but only 3.6% of people in low-income countries have.įor those who aren't vaccinated (or didn't get a vaccine from the approved list), a trip to the U.S. What's more, an Associated Press report noted that some countries that received the first of Sputnik's two doses had trouble getting all the second doses needed. The CDC hasn't said why Sputnik didn't make the cut but WHO raised concerns about the vaccine's manufacturing plant this summer. India, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, Iran and the Palestinian territories are among the places that have used the Sputnik vaccine to vaccinate millions. That includes Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), AstraZeneca-Oxford, Covaxin and the two Chinese vaccines, Sinopharm and Sinovac.īut it leaves out, for example, the widely used Russian vaccine Sputnik V. Food and Drug Administration authorized or approved lists.
are limited to those currently on the World Health Organization or U.S.
Under the new rules, accepted vaccines for travel to the U.S. But not all versions of the vaccine qualify. If you've been vaccinated, you'll have to show a digital or paper version of the card along with ID that matches all of your personal information on the vaccine card. Here's a rundown of the new protocols for those coming from abroad for a job, to study, to visit family – or to find a new home for humanitarian reasons. Junaid Nabi, a senior researcher in health-care strategy at Harvard Business School. "Some parts of the policy are fair and some are burdensome and exclusionary, but overall the revised guidelines are based on clinical and public health evidence," says Dr. If not you may find yourself in pandemic limbo - and feeling very frustrated. In a nutshell, if you've got a WHO-approved vaccine you're welcome. has come up with new rules and regulations for travelers flying in from other countries, taking effect on Monday, November 8, updating a set of restrictive rules set in effect by the Trump administration.īut like all matters relating to travel and the pandemic, the rules can be complicated. will have a new set of rules and requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccines, starting Nov. International visitors who fly into the U.S.
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