Presidential Document2021-28534
Revoking Proclamation 10315
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January 3, 2022
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December 28, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-28534]
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Vol. 87
Monday,
No. 1
January 3, 2022
Part II
The President
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Proclamation 10329--Revoking Proclamation 10315
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The President
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Proclamation 10329 of December 28, 2021
Revoking Proclamation 10315
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization
(WHO) Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus
Evolution announced that the B.1.1.529 (Omicron)
variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), constitutes a
variant of concern. The WHO further reported that the
number of cases of this variant appeared to be
increasing in almost all provinces in the Republic of
South Africa. On the same day that the WHO classified
the Omicron variant as a variant of concern, and based
on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), within the Department of
Health and Human Services, I issued Proclamation 10315
of November 26, 2021 (Suspension of Entry as Immigrants
and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who
Pose a Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus Disease 2019).
That proclamation generally suspended and restricted
the entry into the United States of noncitizens of the
United States (``noncitizens'') who were physically
present within the Republic of Botswana, the Kingdom of
Eswatini, the Kingdom of Lesotho, the Republic of
Malawi, the Republic of Mozambique, the Republic of
Namibia, the Republic of South Africa, and the Republic
of Zimbabwe during the 14-day period preceding their
entry or attempted entry into the United States. I took
that action to slow the spread of the Omicron variant
into the United States and to enable the United States
to implement appropriate mitigation measures while new
information emerged about the variant.
Having learned more about the Omicron variant in the
past several weeks, the CDC now recommends lifting the
travel restrictions imposed in Proclamation 10315.
Since I issued that proclamation, our Nation's health
officials, in collaboration with the South African
scientists who originally reported the variant, have
made substantial progress in understanding the Omicron
variant. Importantly, scientific experts have
determined that people who are vaccinated against
COVID-19 are protected against severe disease and
hospitalization from the Omicron variant. Moreover, the
Omicron variant has now spread to more than 100
countries, and it is prevalent in the United States. At
the same time, my Administration has made international
travel to the United States from all countries safer in
the time since I issued Proclamation 10315. In
particular, the CDC has shortened the timeline for
required pre-departure COVID-19 testing for fully
vaccinated travelers from no more than 3 days prior to
travel to no more than 1 day. As a result,
international air travelers to the United States from
all countries, regardless of citizenship or vaccination
status, must take a COVID-19 test within 1 day of
departure and show a negative test result before they
board a flight to the United States. That requirement
has strengthened the already stringent international
travel protocols that my Administration has imposed,
including requirements for noncitizens to be fully
vaccinated, subject to limited exceptions, and for
travelers to wear face masks on commercial conveyances
and at United States transportation hubs.
In light of these changed circumstances, and based on
the recommendation of the CDC, I have determined that
it is in the interests of the United
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States to revoke Proclamation 10315. The travel
restrictions imposed by that proclamation are no longer
necessary to protect the public health.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States, by the authority vested in me by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and
1185(a), hereby find that, except as provided in
Proclamation 10294 of October 25, 2021 (Advancing the
Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19
Pandemic), or any other applicable proclamation, the
unrestricted entry into the United States of persons
described in section 1 of Proclamation 10315 is no
longer detrimental to the interests of the United
States. I therefore hereby proclaim the following:
Section 1. Revocation. Proclamation 10315 is revoked.
Sec. 2. Review of Agency Actions. The Secretary of
State, the Secretary of Transportation, and the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall review any
regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and
any other similar agency actions developed pursuant to
Proclamation 10315 and, as appropriate, shall consider
revising or revoking these agency actions consistent
with the policy set forth in this proclamation.
Sec. 3. Effective Date. This proclamation is effective
at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on December 31,
2021.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this
proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise
affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This proclamation shall be implemented
consistent with applicable law and subject to the
availability of appropriations.
(c) This proclamation is not intended to, and does
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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