Number: RL31139
Title: Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances
Authors: Mark P. Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: In the second session of the 110th Congress, there were provisions easing Cuba travel restrictions in several versions of House and Senate appropriations bills, but none of these were included in the FY2009 continuing resolution. The draft House Appropriations Committee version of the FY2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill would have allowed family travel once a year (instead of the current restriction of once every three years) to visit aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and first cousins in addition to immediate family. The Senate Appropriations Committee version of the bill, S. 3260, had different provisions easing restrictions on family travel and travel related to the sale of agricultural and medical goods. The Senate Appropriations Committee version of the FY2009 agriculture appropriations bill, S. 3289, also would have eased travel restrictions for the sale of agricultural and medical goods.
Pages: 33
Date: September 28, 2008