Without concern for reciprocity with the EU, the United States refuses for the moment to relax the health moratorium on “non-essential” foreign visitors. The doors to America remain closed until further notice to tourists, students, seasonal workers and businessmen, for lack of a common medical passport and harmonization of vaccines approved on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Correspondent in New York
DThousands of families are just waiting for a sign: European expatriates with their children, residents in the United States under a simple work visa, without a green card or diplomatic sesame, Belgians, French, Spaniards, Germans or Italians, they have no not been able to return “home” since the start of the pandemic, any return to American territory being prohibited from Europe.
The Biden Administration, anxious to preserve the American population after the mistakes of the Trump era and an extremely heavy human toll from covid-19 (601,000 dead in 15 months), refuses to lift the restrictions on visas and travel authorizations for The foreigners. And this, although the European Union has reopened its doors to Americans duly vaccinated.
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