The legislation would also restrict travel into the USA by foreign travelers who have visited Iraq, Syria, Iran or Sudan since 1 March 2011 without first attaining a visa.
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It also would also require countries participating in the visa-free program to share information with USA authorities about suspected terrorists.
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In addition, anyone who is a dual citizen of a Visa Waiver Partner country and one of these specified countries would also not be allowed to avail of the fast-track programme.
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The change applies to citizens of the 38 countries that now participate in the visa waiver program.
The bi-partisan vote to reform the visa waiver program comes in the aftermath of last month’s Paris attacks and the San Bernadino shooting last Friday. “The current Visa Waiver Program contains a number of security gaps we address with this legislation”. The travel industry, which backs the House bill as a balanced approach, says the Senate bill goes too far in adding new biometric requirements for all visa waiver travelers that might be hard to enact.
‘You have more than 5,000 individuals that have Western passports in this program that have gone to Iraq or Syria in the last five years, ‘ said Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Twenty million visitors a year enter the United States under the program, which allows them to stay 90 days.
“Make sure the people traveling into the United States from other countries that have been terrorist hotspots or traveling through there are not able to come without a vetting process”, Noem said. The bill would authorize the Department of Homeland Security to terminate any country’s participation in the program if it doesn’t adequately transmit data. It was started in 1986 to boost tourism and tighten the country’s relationship with its closest allies.
Speaker Paul Ryan praised the bill’s passage, writing in a statement:”today, we took a major step forward in our effort to prevent foreign terrorists from reaching our shores”.
“We urge Congress to exercise caution and to avoid passing legislation that would broadly scapegoat groups based on nationality, and would fan the flames of discriminatory exclusion, both here and overseas”, the American Civil Liberties Union wrote in a letter to lawmakers.
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Meanwhile the Senate introduced a similar measure which hasn’t been scheduled for a vote. This is not a big change from previous regulations: Travelers from waiver countries were already required to have an e-Passport if the document was issued after October 2006. “Our focus should be on terrorism, not just country or origin”, he said.
