{"id":11300,"date":"2020-03-25T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basham.com.mx\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:41:21","slug":"travel-restrictions-across-mexico-us-border-due-to-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/travel-restrictions-across-mexico-us-border-due-to-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ACROSS MEXICO-US BORDER DUE TO COVID-19 VIRUS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the health crisis derived from the COVID-19 virus, declared as pandemic by the World Health Organization on March, 11, 2020, the US and Mexican governments released a joint statement, by which travel restrictions are established, in order to reduce the spreading of the COVID-19 as it is paramount to ensure the health of nationals of both countries and at the same time, protecting cross- border essential economic and employment activities.<\/p>\n<p>As a first measure, all trips considered non-essential are restricted, i.e., those involving recreational activities and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the joint initiative, the following are recognized as essential activities and services, which are mentioned but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trade<\/li>\n<li>Transport of goods and perishables<\/li>\n<li>Purchase of live-saving medicines<\/li>\n<li>Health and emergency services<\/li>\n<li>Work trips (with supporting documentation)<\/li>\n<li>Temporary and permanent residents<\/li>\n<li>Visits of diplomatic or official nature<\/li>\n<li>Other similar, approved by governments of both countries,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By virtue of the foregoing, trips of a non-essential nature will be suspended in order to prioritize the above-mentioned activities.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that, so far, the restriction is only applicable to arrivals throughout US-Mexico land border.<\/p>\n<p>The joint initiative comes into effect at March, 21, with an initial validity of 30 days, subject to extension upon review.<\/p>\n<p>Our Immigration and Global Mobility team remains at your disposal for further clarifications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SINCERELY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ALEJANDRO BARRERA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">barrera@basham.com.mx<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MARGARITA ORT\u00cdZ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">mortiz@basham.com.mx<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mexico City, March 25th, 2020.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the health crisis derived from the COVID-19 virus, declared as pandemic by the World Health Organization on March, 11, 2020, the US and Mexican governments released a joint statement, by which travel restrictions are established, in order to reduce the spreading of the COVID-19 as it is paramount to ensure the health of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,1365,1265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-global-mobility","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}