The U.S. will reopen its border to fully vaccinated foreign travelers on Nov. 8. It's unclear whether that includes people who got a mixed-dose regimen of two different Covid-19 vaccines.
The U.S. border has been closed to discretionary travel since March 2020.The Biden administration has been under intense pressure for months to remove travel restrictions for nonessential, fully vaccinated travelers at the frontier, especially at land ports of entry.to fully vaccinated travelers coming from Canada and Mexico.A concern for many travelers, and Canadians in particular, is whether the U.S. will accept travelers who were given a mixed-dose regimen of two different Covid-19 jabs.
The U.S. will look to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the appropriate definition of “fully vaccinated,” a U.S. government official told POLITICO late Thursday. The public will get an answer prior to the date of the reopening, the official said. Also in September, the CDC filed a notice with the Office of Management and Budget to collect data from vaccinated international travelers. The notice isZients explained the data will act as a “public health surveillance system." U.S.-bound travelers will be asked to offer up their phone number and email address to give the CDC and state and local health officials the ability to follow up with travelers if they have potentially been exposed to Covid or other diseases.
For land border crossings, the ease in restrictions will not apply to asylum-seeking migrants under public health services law, Title 42. That law “remains in place,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday.
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