{"id":146,"date":"2020-03-21T10:28:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=146"},"modified":"2020-09-01T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:04:27","slug":"immigration-information-from-canada-on-closure-of-land-border-with-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/21\/immigration-information-from-canada-on-closure-of-land-border-with-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Information from Canada on Closure of Land Border with the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective 11:59 p.m. EDT last night, the Canada-U.S. land border closed to all non-essential travel. This closure will initially be in effect for 30 days. Non-essential travel includes travel for tourism or recreational purposes. Trade and commerce will continue. The definition of what constitutes \u201cessential\u201d travel remains open to interpretation. Minister Blair today referred to \u201cessential\u201d as serving and keeping Canadians healthy and safe. <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__mobilitylaw.us16.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D425a77fcbfe69d633445d7109-26id-3Ded506e77a2-26e-3D9709ffcfea&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=Uk4MC68c_p3FA5jX7N-Q91WDvpli5Y9kf-6DmZwtkEI&amp;r=5lTfvHVb3NLNAEKQzyM2SqC9yrRGtI4vUr9s4jnjNA0&amp;m=kKno1sPMTyX1VxVgEVDm4_LEVV5JjewIHm9vykTek4k&amp;s=ZS6UUiFJYVAG8zudqpV2j3yFOMlDO3onkKG3Wcy_yw0&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the official statement from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/mariettejetjstigter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jet Stigter<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/2020\/03\/21\/canada-immigration-information-on-closure-of-land-border-with-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Immigration Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective 11:59 p.m. EDT last night, the Canada-U.S. land border closed to all non-essential travel. This closure will initially be in effect for 30 days. Non-essential travel includes travel for tourism or recreational purposes. Trade and commerce will continue. The definition of what constitutes \u201cessential\u201d travel remains open to interpretation. Minister Blair today referred to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/21\/immigration-information-from-canada-on-closure-of-land-border-with-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Immigration Information from Canada on Closure of Land Border with the United States&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[155,13,156,962],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-canada","tag-immigration","tag-land-border-closure","tag-project-development-and-p3"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}