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The St. Kitts-Nevis gov­ern­ment says it has re­ceived no of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the Unit­ed States re­gard­ing a trav­el ban on the twin-is­land Fed­er­a­tion amid in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia re­ports that the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is re­view­ing po­ten­tial visa bans or oth­er re­stric­tions for na­tion­als of 36 coun­tries, in­clud­ing four in the Caribbean.

In a state­ment, Bas­seterre said it has tak­en note of re­ports now cir­cu­lat­ing on var­i­ous plat­forms sug­gest­ing that Wash­ing­ton “has im­posed or is prepar­ing to im­pose” a trav­el ban that in­cludes the twin-is­land Fed­er­a­tion, “and which may af­fect the abil­i­ty of our cit­i­zens to en­ter the Unit­ed States.

“While we un­der­stand the con­cerns that such re­ports may nat­u­ral­ly gen­er­ate, the Gov­ern­ment of St. Kitts and Nevis wish­es to make it ab­solute­ly clear that no of­fi­cial cor­re­spon­dence or com­mu­ni­ca­tion has been re­ceived from the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, whether through our Em­bassy, Con­sular rep­re­sen­ta­tives, or any oth­er chan­nel, in­di­cat­ing the ex­is­tence or im­pend­ing is­suance of any such trav­el ban or re­stric­tion that tar­gets St. Kitts and Nevis or the cit­i­zens of St. Kitts and Nevis.”