Citizens of eight countries, including North Korea and Venezuela, will face new restrictions on entry to the U.S. under a proclamation signed by President Donald Trump
Trump had called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" during his campaign.
US Supreme Court today granted the Trump administration’s request to more strictly enforce its ban on refugees.
"The US now bans Iranian grandmothers from seeing their grandchildren, in a truly shameful exhibition of blind hostility to all Iranians," the Iranian Foreign Minister said.
The scaled-back version of Trump’s executive order came into effect after the US Supreme Court partially reinstated the ban this week after it was blocked by lower courts.
Under new guidelines, applicants from the six countries must prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling in the US.
Handing a victory to President Donald Trump, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the entry into force of some portions of his travel ban denying entry to refugees and citizens of six Muslim-majority nations
The Attorney General’s statement came after a US appeals court upheld a decision blocking President Donald Trump’s revised executive order imposing visa ban on the six Muslim-majority countries.
A US appeals court upheld a decision blocking the revised travel ban of President Donald Trump.
The courts in January halted Trump’s initial order, which banned travel from seven majority-Muslim countries and indefinitely halted entry to Syrian refugees
However, the US president did not mention the name of the countries he considers “dangerous”.
US President Donald Trump offered to help the United Kingdom after terror attacks in London and argued in favor of his controversial travel ban as an extra level of safety.
The Trump administration has requested the nine apex court judges to reinstate the ban considering the legality of the US President’s executive order.
Donald Trump’s White House administration vowed to take the block on executive order to the US Supreme Court.
Islamophobic incidents involving US Customs and Border Protection officials have risen by about 1,000 per cent since President Donald Trump took office in January, a Muslim activist group said.
Donald Trump has vowed to fight a federal court ruling halting his revised temporary ban of refugees and nationals from six Muslim-majority countries, describing the decision as "judicial overreach".
Nearly 2,500 refugees have entered the United States from countries which are now under new travel restrictions since President Donald Trump took office.
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised version of his controversial travel ban, barring new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries and shutting down the refugee program.
The US President may sign an updated executive order banning travel from certain Middle Eastern and African countries early next week.
US President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary US travel ban, officials said. A White House official who has seen the latest version
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