{"id":74,"date":"2015-09-21T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T13:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-09-20T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T15:58:05","slug":"obama-eases-travel-and-trade-restrictions-with-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/2015\/09\/21\/obama-eases-travel-and-trade-restrictions-with-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Eases Travel and Trade Restrictions with Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration announced wide-ranging changes to loosen travel, commerce and investment restrictions on Cuba. The new rules allow American companies to open locations and hire workers in Cuba. U.S. companies will be allowed to establish subsidiaries or joint ventures as well as open offices, stores and warehouses in Cuba. Additionally, the new rules will expand telecommunications services, facilitate financial transactions between the two countries, remove limits on the amount of money that can be brought to Cuba, and allow \u201ccertain persons\u201d to open and maintain bank accounts in Cuba. \u00a0Read more about the Details of the Changes in this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/puertoricocubaandcaribbean\/\">Blog Post<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/joseaaquino.html\">Jose Aquino, Esq<\/a>. \u00a0of the Duane Morris Cuba Practice Group.<\/p>\n<p>Most travel restrictions for US citizens remain in place, but according to the announcement, additional close relatives will be allowed to visit or accompany authorized travelers for certain additional activities.<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/passports\/en\/country\/cuba.html\"> Information about visa requirements and travel restrictions may be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check back often for updates on this rapidly evolving situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration announced wide-ranging changes to loosen travel, commerce and investment restrictions on Cuba. The new rules allow American companies to open locations and hire workers in Cuba. U.S. companies will be allowed to establish subsidiaries or joint ventures as well as open offices, stores and warehouses in Cuba. Additionally, the new rules will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/2015\/09\/21\/obama-eases-travel-and-trade-restrictions-with-cuba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama Eases Travel and Trade Restrictions with Cuba&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,77,86,87],"ppma_author":[234],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cuba","tag-duane-morris","tag-havana-embassy","tag-jose-aquino"],"authors":[{"term_id":234,"user_id":218,"is_guest":0,"slug":"vbrown","display_name":"Valentine A. Brown","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0310f9dbc9098c1b1179b6537f198f013555afbd265a8ccc673c16a1809b2de1?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}