The US Supreme Court will allow a partial enforcement of President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from six Muslim-majority nations until it reviews it later this year.
The court agreed in taking up the case to partially extend a stay preventing the ban from going completely into effect - but it will allow the government to put elements of it into place.
The court will hear the case during the first session of its October term.
Two US appeals courts upheld lower court decisions halting the ban to allow legal challenges on the basis of religious discrimination. The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court.
The executive order had banned the new visas from being issued to people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days and also sought to halt issuances of new refugee admissions from around the world for 120 days.
