On December 11, 2023, President Biden issued a presidential proclamation which prohibits noncitizens found to enable or facilitate corruption from entering the United States. The visa restrictions are part of the Biden administration's anti-corruption initiative, as detailed in the proclamation and fact sheet. The proclamation grants the Secretary of State legal authority to identify individuals "who have enabled, facilitated, or otherwise been involved in significant corruption, including laundered proceeds or obstructed judicial or investigative processes, among other acts," as well as their immediate families, and act accordingly. Additionally, the Secretary of State may exempt any individual if their potential entry may be in the interest of the US. Notably, green-card holders and individuals with humanitarian immigration protections such as asylum and refugee status will not be affected by any visa restrictions.

As part of the proclamation, which will remain in effect until the President terminates it, the government is escalating its enforcement of existing sanctions to target private enablers of public corruption, including freezing their assets, by using existing sanctions. This proclamation marks “the first visa restriction authority for those who facilitate and enable significant corruption, as well as their immediate families."