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.

The trav­el re­stric­tions form part of a wider ex­pan­sion and mod­i­fi­ca­tion of ear­li­er bans in­tro­duced dur­ing Trump’s first ad­min­is­tra­tion and re­in­stat­ed in 2025. The White House said the pol­i­cy is in­tend­ed to pro­tect U.S. na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and pub­lic safe­ty by lim­it­ing en­try from coun­tries with de­fi­cient civ­il doc­u­men­ta­tion, un­re­li­able crim­i­nal records, high visa over­stay rates or weak in­for­ma­tion-shar­ing prac­tices.

Oth­er Caribbean coun­tries re­main on the list. Haiti con­tin­ues to face a full sus­pen­sion of en­try for both im­mi­grants and non-im­mi­grants, while Cu­ba re­mains sub­ject to par­tial re­stric­tions. Haiti was first added un­der ear­li­er procla­ma­tions due to se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns and gov­er­nance chal­lenges, while Cu­ba has faced lim­its re­lat­ed to co­op­er­a­tion on law en­force­ment and in­for­ma­tion shar­ing.

Be­yond the Caribbean, the procla­ma­tion main­tains full bans on coun­tries in­clud­ing Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, So­ma­lia and Yemen, and adds new full sus­pen­sions for states such as Mali, Niger and Syr­ia. Par­tial re­stric­tions were al­so im­posed on sev­er­al African na­tions and oth­ers world­wide.

The procla­ma­tion al­lows for lim­it­ed ex­cep­tions, in­clud­ing law­ful per­ma­nent res­i­dents, cer­tain diplo­mat­ic visa hold­ers, ath­letes at­tend­ing ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al sport­ing events, and case-by-case na­tion­al in­ter­est waivers.

The U.S. ad­min­is­tra­tion said the list will be re­viewed every 180 days.