The Supreme Court has allowed the third version of President Donald Trumps executive order to ban residents of eight countries including six Muslim-majority nations, from travelling to the US while legal challenges against it continue, media reports said. Issued in September, the third edition of the travel ban placed varying levels of restrictions on foreign nationals from the eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Yemen, reports CNN.This is the first time justices have allowed any edition of the ban to go forward in its entirety. In unsigned orderd on Monday that did not disclose the Supreme Court's reasoning, the justices lifted the injunctions, which had been issued by federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland. The court's orders mean that the administration can fully enforce its new restrictions on travel from the eight nations, reports The New York Times. The restrictions vary in their details, but in most cases, citizens of the countries will be unable to emigrate to the US permanently and many will be barred from working, studying or vacationing here.

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