Trump travel ban: 8 things you need to know about Supreme Court ruling
The ban he signed had also called for an end to the Visa Interview Waiver programme, which eliminated the need for an in-person interview to renew travel credentials for people from 38 countries, some US allies.
The first iteration of the travel ban - also known which critics called a "Muslim ban" - sparked massive public protests in nearly every airport around the whole country and mobilised legal and immigrants’ rights groups into action.
Was it challenged?
In the days following the initial ban, courts in New York and Massachusetts issued temporary blocks on the order. Stating that if a traveller had a legal right to enter the country with a visa then they could not be denied or removed from the US.
The backlash was felt by then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates who was fired for refusing to defend the order publicly.
In February 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco then ruled against reinstating the ban after both the administration and activist groups filed petitions.
But there was another ban issued?
In March 2017, a revised travel ban was issued by the Trump administration, authored by White House aide Stephen Miller.
After uproar from the US military and veteran community, Mr Trump removed Iraq from the travel ban list. Advocates said it was unfair to block translators and interpreters who assisted and fought alongside US troops during the Iraq War from coming to the US.
However, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen remained on the list for the 90-day ban and refugees were banned for 120 days.
What happened in Hawaii?
The
revised ban was set to take effect on 16 March 2017, but just hours
before that deadline, a federal judge in Hawaii placed a temporary,
nationwide block on implementing the ban.
Mr Trump called it
"unprecedented judicial overreach”. A federal judge in Maryland and the
judge in Hawaii both cited Mr Trump’s anti-immigration remarks during
his campaign as evidence to suggest it amounted to a "Muslim ban”.
The
administration pushed back once again and an appeal was heard in the
4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ultimately ruled that the revised
ban "continues to exhibit a primarily religious anti-Muslim objective”.
The US Supreme Court intervenes
The
case was appealed up to the highest court in the country in June 2017.
It upheld part of the ban and stated that travellers had to cite a "bona
fide” relationship with a "close” US relative and defined those family
relationships as parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter,
son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling. Grandparents were not included.
Mr
Trump continued his Twitter push to say the ban was a matter "safety”
for Americans and called the revised ban a "watered-down, politically
correct” version.
The third, current version is issued
Appearing
to address the religious discrimination legal concerns, the Trump
administration added North Korea and Venezuela to the list. It removed
Chad after, once again, the military likely expressed concerns. The
African nation has been a staunch ally of the US in counter-terrorism
efforts on the continent.
People with work visas from certain countries were also excluded from the ban.
Trump travel ban: 8 things you need to know about Supreme Court ruling
The US Supreme Court has Donald Trump's travel ban which severely limits travellers from certain countries entering the US. As it stands, travellers, immigrants, and visa holders from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and