TRAVEL BAN UPDATE: Canada-US Border Restrictions

By Elizabeth M. Klarin

March 18, 2020 | Immigration Blog
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Both U.S. President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau have indicated that the U.S.-Canada border will now be closed “for non-essential traffic.” While both have indicated that non-essential traffic includes tourism and recreational activities, neither have confirmed how or whether this will impact business travel for individuals entering the U.S. as business visitors, intracompany transferees, NAFTA (TN professionals), treaty traders or investors, or in other business-related statuses. 
 
If you have traveled across the U.S. border for business purposes on March 18th or thereafter and are willing to relate your experience, please reach out to our immigration team by calling Elizabeth Klarin at (716) 853-5100 ext. 1288, or by email to eklarin@lippes.com, so that we may share your information anonymously with other impacted travelers via this blog. 
 
Questions may be directed to any of our immigration professionals. Please continue to check back on this site for ongoing updates as the impact of travel to and from the U.S and worldwide destinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve. 

Disclaimer: The information in this post is provided for general informational purposes only, and may not reflect the current law in your jurisdiction. No information contained in this post should be construed as legal advice from our firm or the individual author, nor is it intended to be a substitute for legal counsel on any subject matter. No reader of this post should act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information included in, or accessible through, this post without seeking the appropriate legal or other professional advice on the particular facts and circumstances at issue from a lawyer licensed in the recipient’s state, country or other appropriate licensing jurisdiction.


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