Friends, in this video, I'm going to answer two of your questions.
The first question is, who does President Trump's latest proclamation actually applies
to?
And then secondly, who is exempt from this?
So if you're interested in my answers to those questions, stick around, watch this video.
Before I get into it, as usual, thank you guys for watching.
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Now let's get straight into it.
On June 22nd, I did this live session, right, on the day that President Trump signed the
proclamation.
And I walked you through all of the elements of that proclamation.
And I went into a lot of details in that video, and you guys walked away with so many questions.
Now, in my attempt to answer your questions, I'm going to be doing so via video so that
more people get to see or hear what my answers are.
The proclamation did go into effect on June 24th, 2020.
So it's in effect right now.
If you'd like a background on it, go back, watch that other video.
I'm going to link to it here so that you can hear exactly what this is all about.
Now let's get into your first question.
Who does this apply to?
Now I must warn you.
This might get a little confusing, and I'm trying my best to really break this down in
an easy way for you.
This new proclamation applies to individuals who were part of the first proclamation, that
60 day ban, right?
Remember that 60 day ban that went into effect on April 22nd, 2020, in which it suspended
the entry of individuals outside of the US, who are seeking an immigrant visa to come
inside of the US but who had not yet gotten the visa?
So who are we talking about here?
We're talking about pretty much everyone who is seeking an immigrant visa except for a
spouse or child of a US citizen.
Also exempt from that first proclamation are lawful permanent residents.
Thirdly, any individual and their spouse or children who are seeking a visa, who are also
a physician, nurse, or other healthcare professional, or those coming here to perform medical research
related to COVID-19 or helps with our recovery around COVID-19, also individuals who are
coming to the US on the EB-5 Investor Visa Program.
Also exempt, friends, are any individual who is coming here to further a law enforcement
purpose or objective, members of the US Armed Forces and their spouses and children, also
any individual and their spouses or children who are eligible for special immigrant visas
as an Afghan or Iraqi translator or interpreter, and then lastly, any individuals whose entry
would be in our national interest.
Now, when I say that individuals who were seeking an immigrant visa to the US are caught
up in this unfortunate travel ban, I'm actually referring to people, yes, who were coming
here through a family-based process, right, a relative was petitioning for him or her,
but it also includes, friends, individuals who are coming here on an employment based
green card and then also DV Lottery winners.
So those individuals are caught up in the ban as well.
Now this ban is in effect until December 31st, 2020.
So all of those individuals are impacted by this ban.
Now let's talk about the second big category of individuals who are impacted by President
Trump's proclamation.
Think about this in terms of the new people.
The new people that are impacted are those who are seeking a temporary work visa.
And so we're talking about those seeking an H-1B Visa and their spouse and children, individuals
who are seeking the H-2B Visa, including spouse and children.
We're talking about individuals seeking the J Visa, and then lastly, those who are seeking
the L Visa and their spouse and children.
So all of these new people have been added to this list, and they cannot enter the US
on any of those visa type until after the ban is over, which is December 31st, 2020.
Although I've mentioned before that, under this proclamation, they reserve the right
to extend this beyond December 31st, 2020.
So who is exempt from this second proclamation?
Firstly, lawful permanent residents are exempt under this new proclamation.
Secondly, a spouse or child of a US citizen is also exempt.
Thirdly, any individual who is coming here on some work visa that is essential to our
US food supply chain, they're exempt.
And then fourthly, those individuals who it would be in our national interest to admit
into the US.
And so specifically, these are the individual that we're speaking about, those individuals
who are essential or critical to our defense, law enforcement, diplomacy, or national security.
Next, we're also talking about individuals who are involved in providing medical care
to individuals with COVID-19.
We're also talking about individuals who are doing medical research related to COVID-19,
also those who are coming here for the purpose of helping our economy to recover.
And then lastly, guys, and I did not mention this, I forgot to mention this in my June
22nd live session, children who would potentially age out of being eligible for the visa because
of this proclamation.
So children now are part of this, who are exempt under this national interest exemption.
Now, this is a huge thing because this captures children of both US citizens and children
of green card holders.
So I want you to understand that your children who are under 21, who are facing the possibility
of aging out as a result of waiting on this proclamation to end, these children are exempt
from this awful ban.
They can come in, they can be admitted, in other words.
So that's a huge thing.
And I did forget to mention that in that June 22nd video.
So this is actually really good news for parents who are green card holders.
Your children, who would age out of their visa eligibility category, those individuals
are exempt as well.
So friends, this is a lot of information to take in, a lot of information to digest.
I've tried my best to break it down for you in an easy way, and so I hope you found this
helpful.
Guys, I'm going to be doing more videos, answering your questions related to President Trump's
proclamation.
So stay tuned for those upcoming videos, share this with other people, and I'll see you in
the next one.
Bye-bye.