---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9226"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9226"
heading: "Travel sanctions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9226"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement"
  - "Subchapter II — Sanctions Against North Korean Proliferation, Human Rights Abuses, and Illicit Activities"
---

# §9226. Travel sanctions


The Secretary of State may deny a visa to, and the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Homeland Security may deny entry into the United States of, any alien who is—

- (1) a [designated person](/usc/22/9202.md?p=4);
- (2) a corporate officer of a [designated person](/usc/22/9202.md?p=4); or
- (3) a principal shareholder with a controlling interest in a [designated person](/usc/22/9202.md?p=4).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–122, title II, § 206, Feb. 18, 2016, 130 Stat. 108.)