Germany updates US travel advice after citizens detained

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany updated its question advisory for the United States to emphasise that a visa oregon introduction waiver does not warrant introduction for its citizens aft respective Germans were detained astatine the borderline recently, a overseas ministry spokesperson said.

The ministry updated its question proposal website for the U.S. connected Tuesday to clarify that neither support done the U.S. ESTA strategy nor a U.S. visa entitles introduction successful each case.

"The last determination connected whether a idiosyncratic tin participate the U.S. lies with the U.S. borderline authorities," said the spokesperson connected Wednesday.

However, the spokesperson emphasised that the alteration did not represent a question warning.

Since taking bureau connected January 20, President Donald Trump has announced a fig of immigration-related enforcement orders that absorption connected stricter borderline policy, tighter visa vetting procedures and a crackdown connected undocumented migrants successful the United States.

Germany's overseas ministry said earlier this week that it was monitoring whether determination had been a alteration successful U.S. migration argumentation aft 3 nationals had been detained.

Two of the 3 cases person been resolved, with the affected nationals returning to Germany, portion the remaining lawsuit was being handled with the assistance of the consulate wide successful Boston.

According to Boston-based nationalist broadcaster WGBH, a German antheral with a greenish paper residency licence was detained by migration authorities this period astatine Boston airdrome and was being held successful a detention facility.

The German overseas ministry did not instantly respond to a petition for accusation astir the man's existent whereabouts.

(Reporting by Miranda Murray; Editing by Alex Richardson)