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Brits desperate for a summer break in the United States have been handed fresh hope today after it was revealed President Joe Biden's administration plans to re-open the borders to double-jabbed tourists.
Joe Biden's move would form part of the eventual relaxation of travel restrictions that bar much of the world from entering the United States.
The White House is not ready to immediately lift travel restrictions because of the rising COVID-19 case load, a senior official explained.
The Biden administration has interagency working groups striving to prepare a 'new system for when we can reopen travel,' the official added.
The source explained the plan includes 'a phased approach that over time will mean, with limited exceptions, that foreign nationals traveling to the United States [from all countries] need to be fully vaccinated.'
President Joe Biden's move would form part of the eventual relaxation of travel restrictions that bar much of the world from entering the United States
The Biden administration is developing a scheme to require nearly all foreign visitors to the United States to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The news that the Biden administration is developing plans to require nearly all foreign visitors comes amid lingering global concerns about the more contagious Delta variant of the virus.
Currently, non U.S-citizens aren't allowed into the country from China, Iran, most of Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, South African and India.
Some of the border bans - such as the ones imposed on
