Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances

The 111th Congress, however, already has taken action to ease some restrictions on travel to Cuba by including two provisions in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations measure (P.L. 111-8), signed into law on March 11, 2009. The first provision eases restrictions on family travel, which the Treasury Department implemented by issuing a general license for such travel as it existed prior to the Bush Administration's tightening of family travel restrictions in June 2004. Family travel is now allowed once every 12 months for an unlimited length of stay to visit a close relative who is no more than three generations removed from the traveler. The second provision eases travel restrictions related to the marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods to Cuba, and requires the Treasury Department to issue a general license for such travel. The Treasury Department maintained that it would issue regulations in the coming weeks. Several additional initiatives have been introduced in the 111th Congress that would ease restrictions on travel to Cuba: H.R. 188 and H.R. 1530 would lift the embargo, including travel restrictions; H.R. 1531 would facilitate the export of U.S. agricultural products to Cuba and also prohibit restrictions on travel to Cuba; H.R. 874/S. 428 and H.R. 1528 would prohibit restrictions on travel to Cuba; and H.R. 332 would ease restrictions on educational travel.


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