With visas revoked, travelers barred entry despite court order

01/28/2017 BOSTON, MA. A large crowd protested the recent immigration bans at Boston Logan Airport's Terminal E for international arrivals. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)

By The Boston Globe

February 1, 2017

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Despite federal court orders in Boston, New York, and elsewhere allowing people from seven banned countries to come to the US, they are not being allowed to board planes overseas because the State Department had already revoked their visas, according to a federal court filing and a federal official with direct knowledge of its significance.

The revocations were a direct result of the president’s executive order suspending travel for citizens of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, all majority-Muslim countries. The ban does not apply to people with diplomatic visas.

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