What we know about the travel ban

March 7, 2017 at 3:38AM
Asti Gallina, left, a volunteer law student from the University of Washington, sits at a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are gett
Asti Gallina, left, a law student from the University of Washington, was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump’s new travel ban. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Revised immigration order

What's new

• The ban is not immediate, it goes into effect March 16.

• Iraq removed from the list of banned countries.

• Current visa holders no longer affected.

• Syrian refugees barred temporarily — not indefinitely — and refugees of minority religions no longer favored.

• Refugees already granted asylum will be allowed.

• References to support for the Constitution and other beliefs removed.

Who's barred

• People from six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — without current visas.

• People from the six countries newly arriving on immigrant visas.

• Refugees are banned for 120 days.

Who's allowed

• Green-card holders and special immigrants from the targeted countries.

• U.S. citizens, dual nationals and diplomats.

New York Times

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