State Department lists major sporting events in addition to World Cup, Olympics exempt from Trump's visa ban

The Trump medication has revealed assorted "major sporting events" successful summation to the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games successful which athletes and coaches volition beryllium exempt from a wide visa prohibition connected astir 40 countries, allowing them to question to the U.S. to compete.

In a cablegram sent Wednesday to each U.S. embassies and consulates, the State Department said athletes, coaches and enactment unit for the World Cup, the Olympics and events endorsed oregon tally by a lengthy database of collegiate and nonrecreational sporting leagues and associations would beryllium excluded from the afloat and partial question bans taxable to citizens of 39 countries and the Palestinian Authority.

But overseas spectators, media and firm sponsors who privation to be the events would inactive beryllium impacted by the prohibition unless they suffice for different exemption.

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The Trump medication has revealed the "major sporting events" successful summation to the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games successful which athletes and coaches volition beryllium exempt from a wide visa ban. (Brad Smith/ISI Photos/ISI Photos via Getty Images)

"Only a tiny subset of travelers for the World Cup, Olympics and Paralympics, and different large sporting events volition suffice for the exception," the connection said.

The national authorities has issued respective migration and question bans arsenic good arsenic different visa restrictions arsenic portion of President Donald Trump's efforts to curb immigration, though the medication inactive wants athletes, coaches and fans to beryllium capable to be large sporting events successful the U.S.

Trump's proclamation past period banning the issuance of visas to the 39 countries and the Palestinian Authority had included an objection for athletes and unit competing successful immoderate sporting events specified arsenic the World Cup and the Olympics, and a determination connected the different sporting events that would beryllium covered would beryllium made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Foreign spectators, media and firm sponsors who privation to be the events would inactive beryllium impacted by the prohibition unless they suffice for different exemption. (Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

The events covered, according to the cable, see each competitions and qualifying events for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Pan American Games and Parapan American Games; events hosted, sanctioned oregon recognized by a U.S. National Governing Body; each competitions and qualifying events for the Special Olympics; and authoritative events and competitions hosted oregon endorsed by FIFA oregon its confederations.

Official events and competitions hosted by the International Military Sports Council, the International University Sports Federation and the National Collegiate Athletic Association arsenic good arsenic those hosted oregon endorsed by U.S. nonrecreational sports leagues specified arsenic the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and Women’s National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and Little League, National Hockey League, Professional Women’s Hockey League, NASCAR, Formula 1, the Professional Golf Association, Ladies Professional Golf Association, LIV Golf, Major League Rugby, Major League Soccer, World Wrestling Entertainment, Ultimate Fighting Championship and All Elite Wrestling are besides covered nether the exemption.

Other events and leagues could beryllium added to the database successful the future, the cablegram said.

Other events and leagues could beryllium added to the database successful the future. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)

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Under the caller visa restrictions, a afloat question prohibition covers citizens of Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen and individuals holding Palestinian Authority–issued passports.

A partial prohibition applies to citizens of Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burundi, Cuba, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mauritania, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Togo, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.