ecobiz

Dear fellow travellers,

The US gov't this week holded out potential travel bans to/from CV "hotspots" like, at this time, South Korea, Italy and Japan. Now that Germany has surpassed Japan in the number of CV cases, I totally believe travel restriction to/from Germany become fair game.

Though flights are not yet firm, I had originally planned travelling to the US from Germany directly or via UK. Either way, it would prevent me from entering the US. Now I thought about flying to Canada first, then (on another itinerary) fly to the US. This way I could still enter the US (CBP will depend on my revealing any travel history) and would only be reliant on Canadian policies, which seem less restrictive.

Another concern pertains to which airline to choose. Several airlines have arbitrarily and unreliably canceled flights so I am wondering which airline to choose at this point (I don't fly BA anymore, too unreliable)

Thanks for y'all input!

ajGoes

Don't even think about misleading immigration authorities.

Duke787

CBP can see the stamps in your passport...and unless you are a US citizen you need an ESTA which will reveal your travel history...

But good luck with that, I'm sure the prison community transfer rate of coronavirus will be low

ecobiz

I'm German/Canadian

Often1

CBP will absolutely know your travel history and will have it even before you land in the US. You will then be asked about your travel and, should you make a false statement, be denied entry in lieu of being prosecuted for the false statement. In either event you won't be coming back to the US for some number of years.

Duke787

What's your timeframe?

There's no indication that the US is about to ban European travelers or quarantine European travelers. Of course things could change quickly but apart from flight cancellations and travel waivers to Italy, there hasn't been much movement by the US on the Europe front.

GUWonder

I know people who have no stamps in their passports from doing their EU-US trips despite doing a lot of EU-US trips, so CBP would have to rely upon self-disclosure by passengers and/or the PNR history for the ticketed flights involving trips to/from/within the US. Relying upon stamps may work well enough for CBP in many circumstances, but relying upon stamps nowadays is in some ways less useful for investigative purposes by CBP than it used to be.

CBP very often does not know the full travel history of a person flying to US airports of entry. CBP will get the PNR history of the ticketed flight to the US, but that doesn't necessarily track back easily and completely to a full travel history of those travelers who use separately booked tickets to travel around away from the US before or between trips to the US. For this kind of circumstance, CBP primarily relies upon a combination of self-disclosure and PNR surveillance.

warakorn

Have I missed anything? Germans are banned from entering the US?

Of course, it might come to that. However, that would be big news ---> and Lufthansa can close shop.

NewbieRunner

Thread closed in the light of this announcement. Trump halts entry of most visitors who’ve been in Schengen Area 14 days prior