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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 13 / Friday, January 22, 2021 / Presidential Documents 6799 

Proclamation 10138 of January 18, 2021 

Terminating Suspensions of Entry Into the United States of 

Aliens Who Have Been Physically Present in the Schengen 

Area, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the 

Federative Republic of Brazil 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

In the wake of the unprecedented outbreak of COVID–19 in the United 

States, I took action to suspend and limit the entry of aliens recently present 

in certain foreign jurisdictions where significant COVID–19 outbreaks had 

occurred. These jurisdictions included the People’s Republic of China (excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau), the 

Islamic Republic of Iran, the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom (excluding 

overseas territories outside of Europe), the Republic of Ireland, and the 

Federative Republic of Brazil. 

Understanding that the nature of the threat posed by COVID–19 would 

evolve over time, I directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services 

to make recommendations to me regarding whether to continue, modify, 

or terminate the restrictions that I had previously imposed. On January 

12, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an 

order, effective January 26, 2021, requiring proof of a negative COVID– 

19 test or documentation of having recovered from COVID–19 for all air 

passengers arriving from a foreign country to the United States. The Secretary 

has explained that this action will help to prevent air passengers from 

the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the 

Federative Republic of Brazil from spreading the virus that causes COVID– 

19 into the United States, as it is the Secretary’s understanding that the 

vast majority of persons entering the United States from these jurisdictions 

do so by air. 

Moreover, the Secretary expects cooperation from those jurisdictions in implementing the testing order. Public health officials in the jurisdictions 

have a proven record of working with the United States to share accurate 

and timely COVID–19 testing and trend data, and the United States has 

active collaborations with the jurisdictions regarding how to make travel 

safe between our respective countries. As a result of that record, the Secretary 

reports high confidence that these jurisdictions will cooperate with the 

United States in the implementation of CDC’s January 12, 2021, order and 

that tests administered there will yield accurate results. 

This cooperation stands in stark contrast to the behavior of the governments 

and state-owned enterprises of the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic 

Republic of Iran, which repeatedly have failed to cooperate with the United 

States public health authorities and to share timely, accurate information 

about the spread of the virus. Those jurisdictions’ responses to the pandemic, 

their lack of transparency, and their lack of cooperation with the United 

States thus far in combatting the pandemic, cast doubt on their cooperation 

in implementing CDC’s January 12, 2021, order. 

Accordingly, the Secretary has advised me to remove the restrictions applicable to the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, 

and the Federative Republic of Brazil, while leaving in place the restrictions 


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applicable to the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of 

Iran. I agree with the Secretary that this action is the best way to continue 

protecting Americans from COVID–19 while enabling travel to resume safely. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States, 

by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 

United States of America, including sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), hereby find that 

the unrestricted entry into the United States of persons who have been 

physically present in the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom (excluding 

overseas territories outside of Europe), the Republic of Ireland, and the 

Federative Republic of Brazil is no longer detrimental to the interests of 

the United States and find that it is in the interest of the United States 

to terminate the suspension of entry into the United States of persons 

who have been physically present in those jurisdictions. Accordingly, I 

hereby proclaim: 

Section 1. Terminations. Proclamation 9993 of March 11, 2020 (Suspension 

of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons 

Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus), Proclamation 

9996 of March 14, 2020 (Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 

2019 Novel Coronavirus), and Proclamation 10041 of May 24, 2020 (Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons 

Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus), are hereby terminated effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on January 26, 2021. 

Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed 

to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This proclamation shall be implemented in a manner consistent with 

applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(c) This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any right 

or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by 

any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, 

its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day 

of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the 

Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortyfifth. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01634 

Filed 1–21–21; 11:15 am] 

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