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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by codybontecou on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:03AM (#43610820)
"So far, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Germany, France and the U.K. have all issued new travel guidance for those wishing to travel to the U.S."

https://www.newsweek.com/portugal-issues-travel-warning-us-2...

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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by wizzwizz4 on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:11AM (#43610921)
The UK has updated its "Entry requirements" page, but not its "Warnings and insurance" section: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/usa

Last I checked, Germany's advice was similar (i.e., not a general warning); and from the article, it doesn't look like Portugal's advice is a Travel Warning either. There's a difference between making information available, and providing warnings.

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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by johannes1234321 on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:20AM (#43611056)
> Last I checked, Germany's advice was similar

What changed is that they made the text clearer, that ESTA approval doesn't guarantee entry and decision is made by the border officer and adding a note that wrong information may lead to incarceration.

Those notes weren't "needed" before as that was rare, while theoretically the rules were the same, but seem to be handled stricter now.

This is still far from a "proper" travel warning.

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/service/laender/usa-node/...

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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by jeroenhd on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:14AM (#43610994)
Because it's easiest to check, I looked up https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/overseas-travel/advice/united-... but this doesn't seem nearly as severe as Newsweek makes it seem.

It's absolute lunacy that western governments are giving out negative travel advice against the US at all, but I've noticed Newsweek seems to have an agenda on this topic.

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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by threeseed on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:23AM (#43611103)
> It's absolute lunacy that western governments are giving out negative travel advice against the US at all

We've had multiple examples in the last few weeks of Australians being detained and having phones/laptops searched for no legitimate reason e.g.

https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/travel-news/an-australian-w...

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