The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- INA secs. 212(f) and 215(a), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f), 1185(a); 3 U.S.C. 301
- Issued
- 2020-04-22 Apr. 22, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-23 11:59 p.m. EDT (read as 2020-04-23)
- End
- 60 days as issued; extended by Proclamation 10052 (June 22, 2020) and 10131 (Dec. 31, 2020) to Mar. 31, 2021; revoked by Proclamation 10149 (Feb. 24, 2021) (read as 2021-03-31)
- In force
- Apr. 23, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantine
- Addressees
- aliens seeking immigrant visas
- Departments of State, Labor and Homeland Security
- Functions reached
- HR immigrant-visa hiring pipeline
- LS labor supply (predicate to 10052)
- Collection
- Staffing and Support Services SEC-19
Operative words
The entry into the United States of aliens as immigrants is hereby suspended and limited subject to section 2 of this proclamation.... Sec. 6.... the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Homeland Security... shall review nonimmigrant programs and shall recommend to me other measures appropriate to stimulate the United States economy and ensure the prioritization, hiring, and employment of United States workers.
Enforcement
Visa issuance and entry refusal by State and DHS
Notes
The predicate proclamation whose sec. 6 review produced the H-2B suspension in Proclamation 10052.
Retrieval note85 Fed. Reg. 23441 (Apr. 27, 2020).