• @Laser@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Germany

    I don’t know for other countries, but Germany has not issued any travel warnings. The page with information to the US is the following: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/service/laender/usa-node/usavereinigtestaatensicherheit-201382. It contains only information, but no advisory against traveling which a warning usually contains stuff that one might call warnings, but they formally aren’t. Compare it with https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/reiseundsicherheit/suedsudansicherheit-244250: The title of the page contains “(Reisewarnung)” which translates to “warning against travel”. The page contains the wording “Vor Reisen nach X wird gewarnt”. Only those constitute a warning. No such warning can be found on the page about the US.

    Personally, I can only advise against traveling there, but the page for the US has existed basically always. New information was added this month, but the official status / stance on US travel hasn’t changed: the US is on the same level as France and Spain.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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      135 days ago

      It appears that Germany has updated their information several times. So much so that your second link gives me a 404 error. There are multiple reports stating that Germany issued a travel warning. The most recent I could find is from three days ago: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/foreign-travel-warnings-about-us-travel.html

      There are updates that are older than this that state that Germany changed its report and clarified that they weren’t issuing a travel warning specifically, just heightened caution. That seems like “some form of warning” to me.

      Australia has similar wording. While it describes the situation as “Green”, it talks about heightened levels of alert and crime.

      This is precisely why I worded my post: “It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:” (emphasis added).

      I think that the wording that Germany is using falls under this heading.