Can L1 visa holders leave the country to travel and return without issues?

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EYs visa team recommends not to leave the country.

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They won’t be doing their job if they advice anyone to travel out of the country.

And heard some stories where people got stuck

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There are a number of zones which are restricted. Schengen is one of them, same is UK, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa. Even a layover there will ban you from returning to the US for 14 days. There are increased risks compared to pre-pandemic.

Emergencies are OK. Travel just because you are bored it's not encouraged. Depending where you travel, you'll need a PCR test that needs to be made at most 72 hours before you enter in the US.

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It completely depends on where you are going. If you plan to go to Schengen area or any of the other countries that fall under the presidential proclamation, you cannot get in without a National Interest Exception (NIE).

This is why EY strongly advises leaving the country, because you may have a very interesting route back.

And of course, there are many, oftentimes different testing requirements for COVID to take into account, but that’s independent of your visa status.

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Yes, they can. Why do you think, they can't?

Ofcourse, why not. You should have visa validity

I don’t see why not. EY advises anyone with a visa to not travel right now. But situations arise and so do family needs sometimes.

If you have neither of these then def refrain from traveling at the moment, not because of visa stuff but due the rona

Any L1 Visa holder can travel any number of time s .. 95% of visas will have multiple entry on the visa

As long as your passport and visa is valid ... Yes

But given covid you never know when we ban which country entry , so safe to stay put

You can leave, but you won’t get back in if you have been in a restricted country within 10 days of your return.

Left in December and returned in January 2021
No issues

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