US Ends Visas For Group Educational Trips To Cuba - Treasury Department

US Ends Visas For Group Educational Trips to Cuba - Treasury Department

US sanctions against Cuba will be strengthened to prohibit visas for school and other groups seeking contact with residents on the Caribbean Island, the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) US sanctions against Cuba will be strengthened to prohibit visas for school and other groups seeking contact with residents on the Caribbean Island, the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday.

"In accordance with the newly announced changes to non-family travel to Cuba, OFAC [Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control] is amending the regulations to remove the authorization for group people-to-people educational travel," the Treasury said in a press release.

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