Reading Room Document
Control of travel of United States citizens to Cuba
In this memo, the OLC discussed the limitations on a law requiring a valid passport for travel to Cuba, noting that the relevant regulations did not clearly apply to citizens who first traveled to a country for which no passport was required (like Mexico or Canada) and then traveled to Cuba. The OLC advised that the “simplest” way to modify current laws would be to prohibit all travel or entry to particular countries, without any willfulness requirement.
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