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Administration Offers Exemption from Restrictions on Entry to Foreign Professional Athletes

By Amy L. Peck & Gregg E. Clifton on May 29, 2020

To support the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 reopening policies, Chad F. Wolf, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, signed an order exempting some foreign professional athletes (and their staff and dependents) who compete in certain leagues, from the COVID-19 travel restrictions that are in place for 30 countries: China, Iran, Ireland, the U.K, and the 26 Schengen Zone countries.

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