It looks like the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is about to roll out a laptop ban on flights from Europe to the United States. This would effectively extend the ban already in place for 10 Muslim counties to all travellers alighting from Europe. Here are the details.
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Planning a trip to the US soon? You may want to allow a little bit more to organise any visas needed, due to an unspecified outage in the US State Department's processing systems.
