State Dept reverses visa ban, allows travelers with visas into U.S. - official

Samira Asgari is greeted U.S. Congressman Joe Kennedy at Logan Airport after she cleared U.S. customs and immigration in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department will allow people with valid visas into the United States, a department official said on Saturday, in order to comply with an opinion from a federal judge in Seattle barring President Donald Trump's executive action. "We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas," the State Department official said in a statement. "Those individuals with visas that were not physically canceled may now travel if the visa is otherwise valid." (Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati and Julia Edwards Ainsley; Editing by Bill Trott)