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Two Caribbean coun­tries—An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and Do­mini­ca—are now sub­ject to new Unit­ed States trav­el re­stric­tions un­der a procla­ma­tion signed by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, cit­ing con­cerns over screen­ing, vet­ting and cit­i­zen­ship by in­vest­ment pro­grammes.

The mea­sures, which take ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, par­tial­ly sus­pend the en­try of na­tion­als of both coun­tries as im­mi­grants and on sev­er­al non-im­mi­grant visa cat­e­gories, in­clud­ing B-1/B-2 vis­i­tor visas and F, M and J stu­dent visas.

Ac­cord­ing to the procla­ma­tion, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and Do­mini­ca were in­clud­ed be­cause both coun­tries have his­tor­i­cal­ly of­fered cit­i­zen­ship by in­vest­ment with­out res­i­den­cy, which U.S. au­thor­i­ties say cre­ates vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties in iden­ti­ty ver­i­fi­ca­tion and vet­ting. Con­sular of­fi­cers have al­so been di­rect­ed to re­duce the va­lid­i­ty of oth­er non-im­mi­grant visas is­sued to na­tion­als of the two states, where per­mit­ted by law.