Portland, Oregon: A lawyer for the family of an Iranian infant who was temporarily banned from coming to the United States for life-saving heart surgery says they're "overwhelmingly relieved and thrilled" the child will now be able to have the treatment.
Jennifer Morrissey, a lawyer representing the family of Fatemeh Reshad, said she wasn't sure where the family was on Saturday, but they had been expected to travel to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates for pre-clearance after a Seattle judge blocked enforcement of US President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee ban.
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Morrissey spoke at a news conference on Saturday at Oregon Health Sciences University's Doernbecher Children's Hospital, where Fatemeh will be treated.
She said the girl's case is "an extremely poignant example of the impact of the ban".
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Citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries have been allowed to resume boarding US-bound flights, several major airlines said on Saturday, after a Seattle judge blocked Trump's executive order.
Qatar Airways was the first to say it would allow passengers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen to fly to US cities if they had valid documents.
Emirates, Air France, Spain's Iberia and Germany's Lufthansa all followed suit after the federal judge's ruling, which the White House said it planned to appeal as soon as possible.
US Customs and Border Protection told airlines they could board travellers affected within hours of Friday's ruling, but budget airline Norwegian, which operates transatlantic flights including from London and Oslo, said many uncertainties remained about the legal position.
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"It's still very unclear," spokeswoman Charlotte Holmbergh Jacobsson said. "We advise passengers to contact the US embassy ... We have to follow the US rules."
For some, the latest order was not enough reassurance.
In Dubai, Tariq Laham, 32, and his Polish fiancee Natalia had scrapped plans to travel to the US after they got married in July in Poland. Laham said the couple would not reverse their decision.
"It is just too risky," said Laham, a Syrian who works as a director of commercial operations at a multinational technology company. "Every day you wake up and there is a new decision."
AP, Reuters