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Iranian Researcher: Enayati and Stanford University

iranian researcher: Nima Enayati was turned away last week when he tried to fly to New York from Italy, where he's working on a Ph.D. Enayati says, It feels great finally I'm here, according to Guelph Mercury. He says he acted quickly when he saw a judge rule against President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 executive order suspending America's refugee program and halting immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries. An Iranian researcher who had been prevented from coming to the United States to do research at Stanford University has arrived safely at New York's Kennedy Airport. Enayati is on a visa for three months to conduct research at Stanford working on robotics that will help make surgeries less invasive and cheaper for patients. 9 25 p.m. The Los Angeles Times reports Sara Yarjani was among those caught in a confusing legal limbo after Trump signed the order Jan. 27, about seven hours before Yarjani landed in Los Angeles on a flight from Oslo. An Iranian graduate student who was denied entry into the United States under President Donald Trump's travel ban has returned to America after a judge halted the order. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.