Do not travel to the 2025 Worldcon from outside the US.
The 2025 Worldcon has issued a statement about the risks of travel to the US due to the Trump Administration. Unfortunately this statement is very misguided and makes incorrect assumptions about the current situation.
It is not only LGBTQ travellers who have to fear entering the US. It is not every single person entering the US from abroad to travel to a fandom run convention.
This is because of the following:
CBP and other Homeland officers now have to meet quotas of people deported.
CBP and ICE officers have been authorised to interpret the regulations at their full discretion.
You can be determined to be attempting to illegally enter the US for work if you are volunteering or expected to volunteer in any capacity.
You can be determined to be a dangerous foreign national if the officer finds two items of evidence for it, such as having a tattoo and having posted anti-trump content on your social media.
This new arbitrary hostile environment has already ensnared travellers from Germany and the UK.
Being deported from the US under the current administration is not just being put on the next plane back. You are placed into general population detention with everyone else detained that day. Then you may be transported to another Homeland Security detention facility, possibly in a different state. You will be held there for weeks until you are processed even if you have asked to be voluntarily returned to your country.
The detention facilities are overcrowded, and there are currently multiple outbreaks of infectious diseases. Detainees are treated as criminals who's detainment is a punishment. Detainees are kept in general population detention until they can be presented before an immigration judge, who have week long waiting lists.
No amount of travel insurance, consular support or legal support is going to get you out of that detention facility before they decide to let you go home.
It is almost certain that some percentage of foreign attendees to Worldcon will be detained on entry and placed into one of these facilities.
DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE 2025 WORLDCON OR ANY OTHER FANDOM OPERATED CONVENTION.
STRONGLY RECONSIDER ANY TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES.













