Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 90, No. 19 

Thursday, January 30, 2025 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 14161 of January 20, 2025 

Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and 

Other National Security and Public Safety Threats 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., and section 301 of title 3, United 

States Code, it is hereby ordered: 

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. (a) It is the policy of the United States 

to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, 

threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit 

the immigration laws for malevolent purposes. 

(b) To protect Americans, the United States must be vigilant during the 

visa-issuance process to ensure that those aliens approved for admission 

into the United States do not intend to harm Americans or our national 

interests. More importantly, the United States must identify them before 

their admission or entry into the United States. And the United States 

must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in 

the United States do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, 

government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, 

aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national 

security. 

Sec. 2. Enhanced Vetting and Screening Across Agencies. 

(a) The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Attorney General, 

the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, 

shall promptly: 

(i) identify all resources that may be used to ensure that all aliens seeking 

admission to the United States, or who are already in the United States, 

are vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible; 

(ii) determine the information needed from any country to adjudicate 

any visa, admission, or other benefit under the INA for one of its nationals, 

and to ascertain whether the individual seeking the benefit is who the 

individual claims to be and that the individual is not a security or publicsafety threat; 

(iii) re-establish a uniform baseline for screening and vetting standards 

and procedures, consistent with the uniform baseline that existed on January 19, 2021, that will be used for any alien seeking a visa or immigration 

benefit of any kind; and 

(iv) vet and screen to the maximum degree possible all aliens who intend 

to be admitted, enter, or are already inside the United States, particularly 

those aliens coming from regions or nations with identified security risks. 

(b) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State, 

the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director 

of National Intelligence shall jointly submit to the President, through the 

Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, a report: 

(i) identifying countries throughout the world 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 pursuant to section 

212(f) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)); and 

(ii) identifying how many nationals from those countries have entered 

or have been admitted into the United States on or since January 20, 


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2021, and any other information the Secretaries and Attorney General 

deem relevant to the actions or activities of such nationals since their 

admission or entry to the United States. 

(c) Whenever information is identified that would support the exclusion 

or removal of any alien described in subsection 2(b), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take immediate steps to exclude or remove that alien 

unless she determines that doing so would inhibit a significant pending 

investigation or prosecution of the alien for a serious criminal offense or 

would be contrary to the national security interests of the United States. 

Sec. 3. Additional Measures to Protect the Nation. As soon as possible, 

but no later than 30 days from the date of this order, the Secretary of 

State, in coordination with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland 

Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall also: 

(a) Evaluate and adjust all existing regulations, policies, procedures, and 

provisions of the Foreign Service Manual, or guidance of any kind pertaining 

to each of the grounds of inadmissibility listed in sections 212(a)(2)–(3) 

of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)–(3)), to ensure the continued safety and 

security of the American people and our constitutional republic; 

(b) Ensure that sufficient safeguards are in place to prevent any refugee 

or stateless individual from being admitted to the United States without 

undergoing stringent identification verification beyond that required of any 

other alien seeking admission or entry to the United States; 

(c) Evaluate all visa programs to ensure that they are not used by foreign 

nation-states or other hostile actors to harm the security, economic, political, 

cultural, or other national interests of the United States; 

(d) Recommend any actions necessary to protect the American people 

from the actions of foreign nationals who have undermined or seek to 

undermine the fundamental constitutional rights of the American people, 

including, but not limited to, our Citizens’ rights to freedom of speech 

and the free exercise of religion protected by the First Amendment, who 

preach or call for sectarian violence, the overthrow or replacement of the 

culture on which our constitutional Republic stands, or who provide aid, 

advocacy, or support for foreign terrorists; 

(e) Ensure the devotion of adequate resources to identify and take appropriate action for offenses described in 8 U.S.C. 1451; 

(f) Evaluate the adequacy of programs designed to ensure the proper 

assimilation of lawful immigrants into the United States, and recommend 

any additional measures to be taken that promote a unified American identity 

and attachment to the Constitution, laws, and founding principles of the 

United States; and 

(g) Recommend any additional actions to protect the American people 

and our constitutional republic from foreign threats. 

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 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 order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 

subject to the availability of appropriations. 


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(c) This order 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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 20 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02009 

Filed 1–29–25; 8:45 am] 

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