Hi everyone. Any legal pedes out there? Have a question.
Scenario:
An American expat lives overseas with a foreign spouse who is not an American citizen or resident.
Said expat wishes to visit his/her family in the USA, but has been unable to for several years due to the vax mandate required for his/her spouse. The children require the presence of both parents during the trip to provide appropriate supervision and support. The foreign spouse has a 10 year tourist visa issued prior to the pandemic.
With the ending of the Covid emergency, can the CDC and/or Department of State legally continue this discriminatory policy against foreign visitors? Does the expat have any standing to sue in this case?
Would love to know how or if this can be done. Yes, there is a real inspiration for this inquiry.
Waiting patiently to have our daughter and foreign son-in-law back in the US permanently.
Same boat, fren. 🙏 for reunions soon.
No way are they going to make the illegals be vaxed - LMFAO
The most bullshit out of all of this. Millions of unvaxxed illegal immigrants are pouring across the boarder, and yet legal immigrants have to deal with this shit?
☘️Bingo
In the food hierarchy foreign nationals are nobody, bottom tier.
Not a legal fren but a logical one, If the jab is labeled as EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) and there is no more emergency, then logic would dictate they can NOT use the jab, and all the mandates are also now gone, it's also not FDA approved. I also noticed since Fauci left, there's been no more variants.
That would be logical, but our current government is neither legal nor logical.
Non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. immigrants: You must show proof of being fully vaccinated with the primary series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine before you board your flight to the United States. Only limited exceptions apply.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/international-travel-during-covid19.html
And from the state department:
Foreign national air travelers to the United States are required to be fully vaccinated and to provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding an airplane to fly to the United States, with only limited exceptions.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/emergencies/covid-19-faqs-for-travel-to-the-us-information.html
There have been no changes announced by either government agency since the emergency was ended.
Don't spouses have an automatic pathway to citizenship from marriage?
They have an automatic pathway to a greencard only if they wish to live in the US, and after living in the United States for 3 years they can apply for citizenship. In this case however, the American expat is employed overseas, and thus the foreign spouse does not qualify for a US resident greencard, only a tourist visa for visits.
Not sure. In a similar scenario waiting for the requirement to have the covid vaxx for the medical example to get an interview. Which I'm waiting until May 11th, and if the requirement is still there, apply for religeous / moral exemption.
My thinking is that time is on my side. I can wait another year or re-apply if needed.
As far as I know, there are no requirements for the vaxx around air travel.