The Practical NomadEdward Hasbrouck's blogNew travel document requirements for USA citizens- January 25, 2008 Under new regulations and procedures announced to take effect over the next month, citizens of the USA will, for the first time, be required to obtain USA government permission in order to return home to their own country from abroad -- from anywhere else in the world, by air or sea or land. On no other aspect of the right to travel is international law more clear than on the right of return to the country of one's own citizenship: "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter...http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001371.html |