On January 27, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order
("EO") entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign
Terrorist Entry into the United States." Among other things,
the 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 EO has
written in it a mechanism to extend this travel ban indefinitely,
as well as to add additional countries to the list. The EO also
suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions program for 120 days; and
Syrian Refugee program indefinitely.
Later on January 27, based on the President's EO, the U.S.
Department of State issued written instructions to
"provisionally revoke all valid nonimmigrant and immigrant
visas of nationals of" the listed seven countries, with
certain very limited exceptions. Immediately, both visa holders and
lawful permanent residents ("LPRs") from the seven listed
countries often found
