Timeline
- January 27th 2017 - Trump travel ban gets instituted via EO 13769
- January 28th 2017 - Canadian government confirms that dual nationals and permanent residents with a valid PR card and passport are not effected by EO by Michael Flynn NSA advisor
- March 6th 2017 - Trump travel ban 2.0 gets instituted via EO 13780
- September 24th 2017 - Trump travel ban 3 replaces 2.0 via PP 9645
- Adds certain nationals of Venezuela and North Korea to ban list, as well as removes Sudan but adds in Chad
- October 24th 2017 - Suspended processing and admissions of refugees of certain counteris via EO 13815
- April 10th 2018 - Remove travel restriction on chad via PP 9723
- January 31st 2020 - Expansion of travel restriction to several other countries via PP 9983
- January 20th 2021 - Biden reverses the travel ban with the exception of the reverse travel to North Korea via PP 10141
- January 20th 2025 - Trump additional vetting practices gets instituted via EO 14161
- March 14 2025 - NYT releases a leaked draft of the proposed countries for the travel ban
- June 10 2025 PP? to enforce new travel ban after 60 day reevaluation of security threats requested
Commentary
Update 2025/06/10
After the updated list of countries, this still isn’t clear whether this still affects dual citizens.
2025/03/30
As of writing this in 2025/03/30 there is no official ban on Canadian dual citizens even from one of the listed banned countries. The executive order that went into effect at the beginning of the Trump’s second term on 2025/01/20 states that after a 60 day period the state department will provide further recommendations on travel ban, and that travel restrictions will resume as they were before Biden’s reversal on 2021/01/20. One of the key things here is that there was not a ban on Canadian dual citizens in the previous iteration of the travel ban, as was confirmed by the NSA advisor Michael Flynn at the time.
However, in practice what is happening is that Canadian citizens that are originally from these nationalities are facing higher scrutiny by CBP. Which is leading to cases of long screenings, and Canadians dual citizens from banned nations being asked to withdraw their application of entry (not the same as a denial).
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Executive Orders vs. Presidential Proclamations
Authority wise executive orders have the same checks and balances as presidential proclamations. They differ based on the audience, where executive orders are directed towards people within government and proclamation are directed to those outside government. This distinction means that proclamations are seen as legally “weaker”, however they have broader scope because they can be issued against the entire nation, which includes government employees, as well as individuals - source.