Travel restrictions have affected Americans and foreign travelers, yet no one feels the border puzzles more than immigrants and their loved ones. And with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in several countries, your scenario is likely to get worse before you improve.
U. S. borders with Mexico and Canada are closed until at least November 21, according to a tweet from Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf before this month.
“To continue restricting the spread of COVID, the United States, Mexico, and Canada will impose greater restrictions on non-essential travel until November 21,” said the tweet. “We are working intensively with Mexico and Canada to identify safe criteria to facilitate long-term restrictions and our border communities. “
To further restrict the spread of COVID, the United States, Mexico and Canada will impose greater restrictions on non-essential travel until November 21. We are working hard with Mexico and Canada to identify safe criteria to ease long-term restrictions and our border communities. .
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country would keep the border closed until the US did not have a closed border. But it’s not the first time Take over the coronavirus, which COVID-19 explains, and USA TODAY’s research on Johns Hopkins’ latest knowledge suggests that this day is not near: 18 reported states record the number of cases of the week ended Sunday and five more have recorded new death records in a week.
U. S. border crossings are in the process of crossing the U. S. border crossings. But it’s not the first time Possibly more closed than outdoors in the country, the United States has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, with more than 9. 2 million.
In total, the United States reported a record 569350 newArray that eclipses the peak of the following week. ToCOVID-19 for the week of October 26 to November 1 corresponded to more than 14 times the 38,799 reported through the Canadian Public Health Agency in the following two weeks.
Despite the closure of the land border, Canada has begun to allow a prolonged circle of family members living in the United States to apply for an exemption to the north, provided they meet US COVID-19 requirements. But it’s not the first time Rep. Brian Higgins (NYD) called President Donald Trump to do the same on the American side.
“I ask you to put into effect consciously calibrated exemptions to these restrictions – based on moderate parameters of public aptitude – for owners and those who want to meet with their families across the border,” he wrote this month. “The Canadian government has already done so, eased restrictions on the circle of family members of Canadian citizens twice. [. . . ] The United States, however, has not yet followed similar exemptions for land border crossings.
Since March 21, the Trump administration has also been limited to the U. S. -Mexico border to curb the spread of COVID-19. Currently, border crossings to the United States are limited to U. S. citizens and permanent citizens returning home and those who cross through “essentials” for work, school, or fitness purposes. Restrictions do not apply to airArray
A year ago, Leonardo Escobosa, 22, a graduate of economics from the University of Texas at El Paso, fell in love with Yailin Espinoza, 23, who lives across the border in Juarez, Mexico. After the pandemic, they spent five months apart, hoping the government would loosen the restrictions. Finally, in August, Escobosa took on the threat of crossing, knowing that his explanation of why travel can be considered non-essential.
He spinard when he arrived earlier than expected into his mother’s space with flowers.
“We hugged for about five minutes on the sidewalk,” said Escobosa, with whom she had had virtually no physical contact since the pandemic erupted.
But if it had been the duty of the mayor of Juarez, he would have been allowed to go.
Armando Cabada is asking the Mexican government to temporarily prohibit non-essential border travel to U. S. citizens as COVID-19 erupts in the region. citizens can still travel to Mexico.
That of U. S. citizens to “indiscriminate crossings on the border of Ciudad Juarez actively contributes to the spread of the virus,” Cabada said Friday in a letter to Mexico’s Foreign Ministry.
El Paso is dealing with a catastrophic spread of the fatal virus. According to USA TODAY component The El Paso Times, the city reported 854 new instances through October 28, bringing the total number of active instances to 13,653.
In the other aspect of the border, there were 12926 cases shown of COVID-19 in Juarez, a cumulative number that reflects the total number of active cases in the city, as testing is much less common than in El Paso.
The tension of not seeing the circle of relatives or those enjoyed is not unique to those separated by the U. S. borders with Canada and Mexico.
Last August, Sarahy Sigie Reyes, 32, was in a position to fly from Seattle to Hong Kong to enroll in her new husband, Eugene Kobiako, a representative who moved from Boston to Hong Kong in February.
Sigie Reyes, a Mexican citizen of Guadalajara, had all her papers to board her flight, adding the spouse visa she would like in Hong Kong, and booked with Air Canada because she presented the highest direct address to Hong Kong.
The couple did not forese any problems. ” Or so we think,” Kobiako told USA TODAY.
When Sigie Reyes arrived at Seattle International Airport on August 28, he presented his wife with the visa, valid passport and other required documents, as well as a valid COVID-19 negative test. But Air Canada’s billing agent wouldn’t let her board because she’s not a Hong Kong resident.
She tried to get him, as the wife of a Hong Kong resident, to deserve to be allowed to board. To prove his point, he showed the Air Canada agent the corresponding segment of Hong Kong’s official immigration website.
But it was all for nothing: the worker “just walked away while I was trying to tell her I probably had it all,” recalls Sigie Reyes, who burst into tears at the time.
To further complicate the issues, the visa for his paintings sold out in the United States, forcing the couple to make a quick resolution on how to proceed. Kong. He boarded 3 hours later without any challenge after filing his spouse’s visa. He arrived in Seoul thirteen hours later.
But Sigie Reyes faced some other challenge when she arrived: The negative result of her COVID-19 check, which now lasts more than 72 hours, is no longer valid. The states are not older than that).
“This meant he was now in transit as he was not allowed to board the next flight to Hong Kong,” Kobiako said. He left his wife “on the verge of rupture” and feeling “totally helpless and broken. “
In the end, Sigie Reyes had to pay $ 2,200 more to wait for her 14-day quarantine in a hotel room at the Seoul airport and eventually went to Hong Kong, where she had to remain in quarantine for another two weeks.
“It’s been a long roller coaster ride,” he says. “It feels like a total month of his life has been wasted. “
Air Canada later told the couple that Sigie Reyes was denied boarding because she did not submit an electronic authorization form, which is required for Mexican citizens crossing Canada. He said he had it with him, but no one on the airline requested it at check-in. The airline told USA TODAY that it had refunded its ticket.
“It’s very complicated and frustrating,” Sigie Reyes said of her terrible experience, “especially since I prepared everything and everything in order, and it’s like no one listens to me. “
Contributors: Jayme Deerwester and Mike Stucka, USA TODAY; Veronica Martinez, Lauren Villagran and Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times
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