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The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs (federal agency)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 22 U.S.C. 2651a, 2656; Travel Advisory system
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-19
- End
- 2020-08-06 (lifted in favor of country-specific advisories) (read as 2020-08-06)
- In force
- Mar. 19, 2020 to Aug. 6, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantine
- Addressees
- all U.S. citizens
- employers with traveling staff (by consequence)
- Functions reached
- TR business travel, field service, trade shows and sales trips abroad suspended in practice
- MK
- SC supplier visits and quality audits
- HR expatriate staffing
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION
Operative words
Level 4: Do Not Travel... Global Level 4 Health Advisory - Do Not Travel (the advisory 'advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19' and directs citizens abroad to 'arrange for immediate return to the United States, unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period' -- text as captured Apr. 2, 2020)
Enforcement
Advisory; operative through insurers, corporate travel policies, and the concurrent consular suspension
Notes
The federal instrument that corporate travel policies, insurers and universities treated as the trigger for halting all international travel; in force through the second and most of the third quarter of 2020.
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