by Lacey Pfalz
Last updated: 3:50 PM ET, Tue December 16, 2025
Travelers from five additional countries are now banned from traveling to the United States, with new limitations on others, according to a new rule from the Trump administration.
Like Trump warned after the Thanksgiving shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., which was carried out by an Afghan national, the expanded list now bans travelers from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria, yet it doesn't go so far as to ban the proposed 30 countries like he threatened.
It also fully restricts travel for people with Palestinian-Authority-issued travel documents, along with travelers from Laos and Sierra Leone.
Additionally, travelers from fifteen countries will now have to face partial restrictions or entry limitations when visiting the United States. These countries include Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Trump originally announced his travel ban back in June with twelve countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, and restricted travel for those from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
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