Hanadi Al-Haj, right, greets her Yemeni mother Amal Bagoon in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport as her mother arrives from Jordan via Istanbul, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Grandparents don’t count, but step-brothers and sisters do (Picture: AP)

Donald Trump’s travel ban went into effect last night with one small change: Officials updated what defines a ‘bona fide’ relationship for people from the six Muslim-majority countries hoping to travel to the States.

If you have ‘close family’ living in America, the ban does not apply to you. However, grandparents are not defined as ‘close family’. So, if your only tie to the States is a grandmother or grandfather, this will not qualify as entry.

It didn’t take long for people to react. Twitter is being flooded with pictures of grandparents under the hashtag #GrandparentsNotTerrorists.

The updated guidelines follows a court ruling from the Supreme Court on Monday that allowed Trump’s travel ban to go ahead in part.

People from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are barred from entering the US for 90 days. Trump chose these countries because he thinks they’re the most ‘terror-prone’.

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2017, file photo, people carry posters during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, in New York's Times Square. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers will be key players in putting President Donald Trump's revised travel ban into effect on Thursday, June 29, affecting visitors from six mostly Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
Earlier this year, protests erupted across the country after Trump imposed the ban with little warning (Picture: AP)
The ban sparked a wave of protests earlier this year (Picture: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Trump has welcomed the SCOTUS ruling (Picture: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: Demonstrators gather near The White House to protest President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim countries on January 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed the controversial executive order that halted refugees and residents from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
The ban sparked a wave of protests earlier this year (Picture: Getty)

The court ruling wasn’t viewed as a complete victory for the president because SCOTUS put a number of clauses in place.

Part of the agreement going forward is that anyone with ‘a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States’ is allowed to travel back and forth into the States.

Until yesterday, what defined as ‘bona fide’ was not entirely understood.

According to The New York Times, whch got hold of a diplomatic cable, ‘close family’ is ‘defined as a parent (including parent-in-law), spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sibling, whether whole or half. This includes step relationships.’

In this June 21, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Trump has a way of presenting missions as accomplished even when they???re not. So it was when he told Iowans he???s put farmers back at their plows, secured a historic increase in military spending and empowered homebuilders to swing their hammers again. Those all remain aspirations, not achievements.
Trump said the countries are ‘terror-prone’ (Picture: AP)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: Demonstrators gather near The White House to protest President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim countries on January 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed the controversial executive order that halted refugees and residents from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
Citizens from the barred countries can enter the US if they have ties to the country (Picture: Getty)

So, it includes a step-brother or sister, but not grandparents. It went on to state grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers-in-laws and sisters-in-law, fiancés and any other ‘extended’ family members do not qualify.

SCOTUS has said the ban will remain in place until it looks into the legalities of the order in its next term which runs from October 2 until December 21.

When the order was pushed through earlier this year, it outlined halting refugee resettlement for 120 days and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely. SCOTUS has imposed the same rules for refugees as citizens of banned countries. It also lifted the indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.

What does the travel ban mean?

Those affected are people attempting to travel to the States from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The court has given the green light for a 90-day travel ban. This had been blocked by court rulings in the wake of Trump first signing this ban earlier this year.

The Supreme Court’s ruling does, however, allow foreigners access who can prove their have a relationship with someone in the US.

It is expected to come into effect hours after the ruling.

The ban does not affect those traveling to the US from Britain on a vacation or for work purposes (so long as they have the appropriate visa in this instance).