{"id":39461,"date":"2025-10-27T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=39461"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:37:58","slug":"new-us-entry-exit-rules-for-visa-holders-green-cardholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/new-us-entry-exit-rules-for-visa-holders-green-cardholders\/","title":{"rendered":"No Photo, No Entry: USA’s New Entry-Exit Rules for All Non-Citizens Takes Effect on 26 December"},"content":{"rendered":"
With back-to-back regulations for aliens, the Trump administration is leaving no stone unturned to clog loopholes in the US immigration system. After introducing a hefty Visa Integrity fee<\/a><\/span> and intensifying the CBP inspection of non-US citizens at entry airports, the US government is up with new entry-exit rules for all visa holders and Green Cardholders. The new US entry-exit rules make photo and biometric data mandatory for all non-US citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
PC: Freepik (paid)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n What is the new US entry and exit rule? \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Effective 26 December 2025<\/strong>, the new US entry-exit system requires CBP officers to take photos and collect biometric details of all foreigners for mandatory facial recognition at all airports, seaports, and land crossings. The data to be collected upon arrival in the US will be matched against the data to be collected during departure. Any discrepancies in the biometric data comparison may get an immigrant or non-immigrant detained or deported. It may render them inadmissible to USA in the worst scenario.<\/p>\n
New US entry-exit rule exemptions<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The Department of Homeland Security clearly states that the new biometric entry-exit system does not exempt even children under 14 and the elderly over 79 from photograph capture. Precisely, the regulation will be enforced on all non-US citizens, regardless of age, language, and nationality. Since it won\u2019t apply to US nationals and citizens, the US-born children of aliens are likely to be exempted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Are Green Cardholders exempt to the new US border rule?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Green Cardholders are not exempt to the mandatory biometric entry-exit system at any US ports of entry, as they are only lawful permanent residents, not US citizens. Their US-born kids may be among potential exemptions.<\/p>\n