On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new Executive Order
entitled, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry
into the United States" (the "New EO"). The New
EO expressly "revok[es]" and "replac[es]" the
President's January 27, 2017 Executive Order of the same name (the "Original EO"). As
described below, the New EO effectively bans the issuance of new
visas to nationals of six countries for at least 90 days.
The substance of the Original EO and resulting litigation were
previously addressed by our Immigration Alerts of
January 30,
February 7,
February 10 and
February 17. In summary, the Original EO essentially prohibited
aliens from seven majority-Muslim countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) from entering the United States
for a period of 90 days. The original EO has written in it a
mechanism to extend this travel ban indefinitely, as well as to add
additional countries to the list. The original EO also suspended
the
