ICT
Program Suspended Immediately Pending Evaluation:
Will Affect International Travelers Waiting at US Airports
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Due to heightened
concerns over U.S. security, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
has suspended the Immediate and Continuous Transit Program pending further
investigation of its safety.
This program
allowed non-resident aliens travelling to another country to make a stopover
in the U.S. without needing a U.S. visa.
Now a resident
of Mexico, for example, who is making a stopover at a New York airport
while waiting for a connecting flight to London must present a valid non-immigrant
United States visa upon arrival at the U.S. airport.
The ICT Program
was also known as the Transit Without Visa Program (TWOV) and the International
to International (ITI) Program.
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