President Donald Trump's travel ban temporarily suspending the nation's refugee program and immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries is in legal limbo.
While President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration makes its way through the courts, it's currently on hold, allowing family members stranded by the ban to reunite and refugees to enter the US after fleeing their countries.
The executive order, which Trump signed on January 27, temporarily suspended travel from seven mostly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Syria.
Three judges will decide as soon as Thursday whether to immediately reinstate the ban.
Here are the stories of families who did get to arrive in the meantime:
The Alis, from Yemen, hadn't seen their family in six years.
Twelve-year old Eman Ali and her father Ahmed Ali were stranded in Djibouti after being denied entry into the US due to Trump's executive order on immigration.
But on February 5, the Alis were reunited.
Salma Ali embraces her 12-year old sister Eman Ali at the San Francisco International Airport.
The two cried after seeing each other for the first time in years.
Hameed Darweesh, a 53-year-old Kurd who was a US Army translator in Iraq, had been threatened there for helping the Americans. Visas for him and his family were issued on Jan. 20, but as soon as he landed at JFK Airport, CBP officers detained him. Here he is after he was released on January 28.
Zabihollah Zarepisheh had flown from Iran to meet his new granddaughter, but was held for over 30 hours at JFK on January 29 because of the travel ban. Here, he celebrates after being released.
Yemeni Ali Alghazali (right), 13, was previously prevented from boarding a plane to the US following the executive order arrives at JFK Airport on February 5.
Here, Ali hugs his uncle Saleh Alghazali as they reunited at JFK.
A demonstrator against the immigration ban protests at Los Angeles international airport on February 4.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (left) helps guide Iranian Ali Vayeghan and his niece Marjan Vayeghan out of Los Angeles International airport after a federal judge ordered the visa-holder's safe return on February 2. "This is what human rights look like," Vayeghan said through an interpreter.
The Bay family is reunited on January 28 after Hamed Bay, a researcher at Tufts University who was traveling back to the US after visiting his sick father in Iran, was questioned because of the travel ban at Logan Airport in Boston.
Mazdak Tootkaboni (2nd left), an Iranian with a US green card who is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is reunited with friends and family after he was detained because of the travel ban at Logan Airport in Boston on January 28.
Shanez Tabarsi is greeted by her daughter Negin after traveling to the US from Iran following a federal court's temporary stay of Trump's executive order at Logan Airport.
Niki Rahmati, an Iranian student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was originally turned away from a flight to the US, is greeted by immigration attorney Susan Church (right) at Logan Airport on February 3 after she cleared customs on an F1 student visa.
Samira Asgari, an Iranian scientist who had obtained a visa to conduct research and was twice prevented from entering the US under the travel ban, is greeted by Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy after she cleared customs at Logan Airport on February 3.
Banah Alhanfy, whose father was an interpreter for the US in Iraq, is greeted by her uncle at Logan Airport after she cleared customs and immigration on a special immigrant visa on February 3.
Behnam Partopour, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute student from Iran, is greeted by friends at Logan Airport after he cleared immigration on an F1 student visa. He was originally turned away from a flight because of the ban.
People wait to greet their Yemeni family members who were initially denied entry into the US because of the travel ban, at Washington Dulles International Airport on February 6.
Tareq Aziz (left) and his brother Ammar Aziz, Yemeni nationals who were delayed entry into the US, smile as they are reunited with their family at Washington Dulles International Airport on February 6.
Najmia Abdishakur (left), is a Somali national who was delayed entry to the US because of the travel ban.
Abdishakur's family greeted her with balloons and hugs at Washington Dulles International Airport on February 6.
Zahra Warsma embraces her daughter after Abdishakur arrived in Virginia.
Warsma wipes away tears after greeting her daughter Abdishakur.
Mustafa Aidid (center R), a Somali national who was delayed entry into the US, is reunited with his brother Taha Aidid at Washington Dulles International Airport on February 6.
Faisal Etal (in the brown coat), a Somali national who was delayed entry into the US, is greeted by his brother Adan Etal at Washington Dulles on February 6.
Iranian citizen and US green card holder Cyrus Khosravi meets his niece, Dena Khosravi, 2, for the first time.
Iranian Hamidreza Khosravi and his two-year-old daughter were detained for additional screening following their arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Here the brothers are, reunited.
Syrian refugee Baraa Haj Khalaf and her daughter Shams, 1, arrive at O'Hare International Airport on February 7.
Khalaf kisses her father Khaled as her mother Fattoum cries after arriving in the United States.
Reuters contributed reporting.
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