UPDATED: Mo Farah “relieved” to be able to return to the United States

UPDATE: According to BBC Sport, a spokesperson for Farah has said: “We understand from the statement released this evening by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that the executive order will not apply to Mo.” Farah’s representatives added that “Mo is relieved that he will be able to return to his family once his current training camp concludes.”

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Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah’s status to reenter the United States is unclear following an executive order by President Donald Trump. The decision bans visitors from seven nations including Somalia, where Farah, a Brit, was born. Sources from his camp have stated that he is not a dual British-Somali citizen.

“It remains unclear whether Mr. Farah would be allowed into the United States to train or compete,” writes the New York Times. Farah moved to Great Britain when he was eight and has lived in the United States for approximately six years. He does not hold a Somali passport.

Sir Mo's representatives confirm he does NOT hold dual nationality or a Somalian passport.

— Ben Rumsby (@ben_rumsby) January 29, 2017

“Farah and his representatives are trying to establish whether the fact he was born in Somalia will present a problem for him when he wishes to return to the United States,” according to ESPN.

Farah, the 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion from London and Rio, resides in Portland, Ore. and trains with the Alberto Salazar-coached Nike Oregon Project, a group that includes Americans Galen Rupp and Matt Centrowitz as well as Canadian Cam Levins. The 33-year-old released a statement on Sunday morning from Ethiopia, his current training camp location.

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“On Jan. 1 this year, Her Majesty The Queen made me a Knight of the Realm,” Farah says via his Facebook page. “On Jan. 27, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien. I am a British citizen who has lived in America for the past six years – working hard, contributing to society, paying my taxes and bringing up our four children in the place they now call home. Now, me and many others like me are being told that we may not be welcome. It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that Daddy might not be able to come home – to explain why the President has introduced a policy that comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice. I was welcomed into Britain from Somalia at eight years old and given the chance to succeed and realize my dreams. I have been proud to represent my country, win medals for the British people and receive the greatest honour of a knighthood. My story is an example of what can happen when you follow polices of compassion and understanding, not hate and isolation.”

A federal judge blocked part of the executive order on Saturday evening. Trump’s executive order affects visitors from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen for an initial 90-day period, according to the New York Times. An executive order does not require U.S. congressional approval.

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“Farah does not have dual nationality or hold a Somali passport and it is understood his advisers are trying to clarify the situation with the US authorities,” writes the BBC. The International Olympic Committee has not commented on the situation.

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— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 29, 2017

Canadian passport holders and dual citizens are not “affected” by the executive order, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed on Saturday.