Guam and CNMI: remaining foreign ordinary passports require advance visa
For every remaining catalog foreign ordinary passport not affected by the current proclamation and after the separate Bahamian, Canadian, Compact, federal VWP, G-CNMI and PRC-CNMI exceptions are removed, current 8 CFR 212.1 applies its general requirement to present a valid visa.
- This is the ordinary short business/pleasure nationality baseline, not a finding that every person holding the passport lacks a valid U.S. visa or other immigration status.
- Valid U.S. visas, lawful permanent residence, advance parole, humanitarian or individual documentary waivers, visas for transit/crew/work/study/residence, diplomatic/official/special passports and inadmissibility remain distinct conditional cases.
- The rule never treats a residual passport as eligible for G-CNMI, federal VWP/ESTA, Compact or CNMI EVS-TAP merely by omission.
- The catalog passports affected by Presidential Proclamation 10998 are deliberately unresolved because current entry and visitor-visa restrictions and their historic-visa, dual-national and other exceptions cannot be represented by one passport-wide access category.