America has issued an official travel advisory for its citizens on Thursday (January 8, 2026). In its advisory, the Trump administration has advised American citizens not to travel to these 21 countries of the world. These countries include countries like Russia, Ukraine, Libya, Burkina Faso, although India and Pakistan are not named among them.
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The US Department of Foreign Consular Affairs issued a travel advisory in a post on social media platform X on Thursday (January 8, 2026). In the post, the US State Department said that we are issuing travel advisory for American citizens with level 1 to 4. Level-4 in this means do not travel there.
We issue Travel Advisories with Levels 1 – 4. Level 4 means Do Not Travel. We assign Level 4 based on local conditions and/or our limited ability to help Americans there. These places are dangerous. Do not go for any reason.
The Travel Advisories for the following countries… pic.twitter.com/cDMJJKHcH2
— TravelGov (@TravelGov) January 8, 2026
The post said that we assign Level-4 keeping in mind the local conditions and our limited capacity to provide assistance to American citizens present in these countries. These places are dangerous. Do not travel to these places for any reason.
Appeal not to travel to these 21 countries
- afghanistan
- belarus
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Central African Republic (CAR)
- haiti
- iran
- Iraq
- lebanon
- Libya
- gardener
- niger
- north korea
- Russia
- somalia
- south sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- ukraine
- Venezuela
- yemen
