Starting 8 November, all foreign travellers will be allowed to enter the US, so long as they are fully vaccinated and get tested within three days before departure. The good news for Malaysians is that the US will be accepting vaccination certificates for any brand of COVID-19 vaccines that are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the World Health Organisation (WHO). This qualifies almost all the vaccines currently approved in Malaysia, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna. Unfortunately, the single-dose CanSinoBIO vaccine, which Malaysia bought 3.5 million doses of, is not authorised by either bodies, so recipients of this vaccine won’t be able to enter the US. The CDC considers individuals to be fully vaccinated 14 days after their second dose of a two-dose regiment or their first dose of a one-dose vaccine. This differs from the definition in Malaysia, which requires those receiving one-dose shots to wait 28 days before being considered fully vaccinated.
🔗 Watch our explainer video! https://t.co/0qxNW7W91G — U.S. Embassy KL (@usembassykl) November 8, 2021 The embassy says that if you still have a valid visa in a previous passport, you can bring along both your current passport and the old one which contains your visa. If you don’t have it yet and wish to apply, the embassy says they only have limited appointments for tourist visa applications. You can find out more at their website. Previously, the country had banned travellers from the European Schengen Area, UK, Republic of Ireland, China, Iran, South Africa, Brazil, and India, as well as those who had been in any of these countries 14 days before leaving for the US. (Source: US Embassy in Malaysia)
