British and German governments have updated their advice to travelers seeking to enter the United States with new warnings on the risk of arrest or detention.
Updates occur after recent reports of British and German nationals are held at the border in the midst of an immigration repression of the administration of US President Donald Trump.
The page of travel advice in the United Kingdom On the British Foreign Office website is currently warning travelers to “comply with any entry, visa and other entry conditions”.
“The authorities of the American whole and strictly apply the entry rules.
The archived versions of the same website showed that in early February, the directives only said: “The authorities of the American whole and apply the entry rules.”
The page does not say when it is the last update. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
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Earlier this month, in response to the media reports that a woman had been detained for more than 10 days at the border for a possible violation of her visa conditions, the British Affoest Office confirmed that he provided support to a British national held in the United States
The woman has since returned to Great Britain, the local media reported.
Wednesday, Germany has updated its American travel opinion To emphasize that a visa or a renunciation of the entry does not guarantee the entry after several Germans were recently detained on the border.
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Monday that it was aware that at least three cases of Germans were unable to enter the United States, saying that “the trip was blocked by deportation detention”.
“The final decision to find out if a person can enter the United States lies in the American border authorities,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.
However, the spokesman stressed that the change was not a travel warning.
Canada’s travel advice for the United States has been updated for the last time on March 12 and do not contain a similar language about the “strict” application of the entry or warning requirements that a visa or another permit does not guarantee entry.
The web page has long included warnings that leaving the United States when you need a limited-term visa and trying to enter without derogation for a criminal record, can cause arrest or expulsion.
Global News asked Global Affairs of Canada if he intended to update the opinion in accordance with the United Kingdom and Germany, but has not yet heard of the department.
Earlier this month, a woman from British Columbia spent two weeks in American immigration and customs detention after trying to enter the United States of Mexico while reappearing for a work visa.
She told Global News and the American media that she had received little information by glacial agents other than affirmations that she had submitted inappropriate documents.
An immigration lawyer told Global News that he had advised the Canadian not to go to the border crossing near San Diego “only because of the current political climate”, but the woman went there anyway.
Since his entry into office in January, Trump has announced a certain number of immigration executive decrees which focus on stricter border policy, procedures for verifying stricter visas and repression against unpaid migrants in the United States
A French scientist was denied entry to the United States earlier this month after immigration officials found SMS on his criticizing Trump phone, who said “could be considered terrorism,” according to French media.
France has not yet updated its travel advice for the United States
– With Amy Judd files, Travis Prasad and Katie Scott and Global Reuters
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