Terrorism-Related Inadmissibility Grounds Exemptions

The secretaries of State and Homeland Security, in consultation with the attorney general, can authorize exemptions from the terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds (TRIG). See INA section 212(d)(3)(B).

Please see below for more information on each of these exemptions approved to date.

Situational Exemptions to Date: 

• Material support under duress
• Solicitation under duress
• Military-type training under duress
• Voluntary medical care
• Certain applicants with existing immigration benefits
• Iraqi uprisings
• Certain limited material support
• Insignificant material support
• Afghan Allies
• Afghan Civil Servants

Group-Based Exemptions to Date:

• 10 named organizations in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (CAA)
• All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF)
• All India Sikh Students Federation-Bittu Faction (AISSF-Bittu)
• Certain Burmese groups
• Democratic Movement for the Liberation of the Eritrean Kunama (DMLEK)
• Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF)
• Ethiopia People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP)
• Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)
• Iraqi National Congress (INC), Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
• Kataeb militias
• Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
• Lebanese Forces
• Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA)
• Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)
• Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)