--- description: The new order will be effective on March 16 title: Read the Official Fact Sheet on the Revised Travel Ban image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd64d38fcc73cf0b5/6988bd1f0b72e35e496ecdaf/gettyimages-648403288.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [travel ban](/tag/travel-ban/) ## travel ban Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Read the Official Fact Sheet on the Revised Travel Ban by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2017 5:14 PM CUT  WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 05: President Donald J. Trump waves as he walks across the South Lawn towards the White House on March 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump is returning from a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago clu in Palm Beach. Florida. Pool—Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 05: President Donald J. Trump waves as he walks across the South Lawn towards the White House on March 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump is returning from a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago clu in Palm Beach. Florida. Pool—Getty ImagesPool—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2017 5:14 PM CUT President Trump signed [an executive order on Monday ](http://time.com/4691806/president-trump-new-travel-ban/?xid=homepage "undefined")that revised a previously issued ban on travel from certain majority-Muslim countries. The revised order blocks travel from six countries, not seven, and no longer indefinitely bans the resettlement of refugees from Syria—but all refugees are still subject to a 120 day pause. Administration officials say the first order was not legally unsound, but the new order was issued in response to challenges the first order faced in federal courts. On Monday, the [Department of Homeland Security](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/03/06/fact-sheet-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states "undefined") released a fact sheet outlining key points of the new order. You can read it here below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4692097/revised-travel-ban-fact-sheet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4692097/revised-travel-ban-fact-sheet/"},"headline":"Read the Official Fact Sheet on the Revised Travel Ban","datePublished":"2017-03-06T17:14:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:41:07.706Z","description":"The new order will be effective on March 16","url":"https://time.com/4692097/revised-travel-ban-fact-sheet/","keywords":["travel ban","White House","Immigration","Donald Trump","transcripts","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd64d38fcc73cf0b5/6988bd1f0b72e35e496ecdaf/gettyimages-648403288.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd64d38fcc73cf0b5/6988bd1f0b72e35e496ecdaf/gettyimages-648403288.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump at the White House in Washington, DC","caption":"President Trump at the White House in Washington, DC","creditText":"Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/travel-ban/","name":"travel ban"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4692097/revised-travel-ban-fact-sheet/","name":"Read the Official Fact Sheet on the Revised Travel Ban"}}]}] ```