President Trump signed an executive order Monday ordering new travel restrictions for residents of six Muslim-majority countries as well as a temporary ban on refugees from around the world, retooling a directive issued five weeks ago that stoked chaos at airports and drew international condemnation and a rebuke in the federal courts.

The new ban, which takes effect March 16, halts travel for 90 days for residents of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The refugee suspension will last 120 days.

Iraq, whose citizens and nationals had been on the original list of banned travelers, was removed after officials there agreed to accept all Iraqi citizens being deported from the U.S., according to a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security who briefed reporters on the latest plan.

That was one of several changes to the order designed to insulate it from court challenges that blocked the first one. The new order also leaves more time for agencies to implement it in hopes of alleviating the confusion that accompanied the original order, which was issued only a week after Trump took office, with little consultation from top agency officials.

The new ban also clarifies that permanent residents and those holding valid visas will be allowed to enter the country or remain here. The order will give the Department of State room for exceptions “on a case-by-case basis when in the national interest of the United States,” according to Homeland Security.

Trump signed the order privately Monday morning with little fanfare, and the White House announced it only afterward.

The newest order will have sweeping effects, slowing the refugee program to a trickle and creating a new immigration standard for the six countries effected. But it falls short of the all-out ban on Muslims that Trump promised during the campaign.

Kellyanne Conway, senior White House counselor said the new order contained “six or seven major points” that clarify who would be affected by the order.

Unlike the earlier directive, the new instructions do not suspend Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely. Syrian refugees are included in the blanket suspension and are not singled out.

His administration insisted that the new policy would not end the court battle. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, has called the second order part of a “dual-track system” that would ensure a higher level of border scrutiny while the court case on the first order is litigated.

The new order, while not freezing all asylum seekers, would still repeat language in the old order that would slow their entry dramatically, by capping the program at 50,000 refugees for the year, compared with 110,000 allowed under policies of the Obama administration. The U.S. has already accepted 35,000 refugees this year, meaning only 15,000 more would be allowed.

In addition to blocking visas from the six listed countries, the new orders require agencies to "take immediate steps" to create "enhanced vetting and screening procedures" for all foreigners wanting to visit the U.S., the senior Homeland Security official said. "The president is very concerned about existing vulnerabilities," the official said.

After the new order is implemented next week, Homeland Security and State Department officials will examine every country in the world to ensure they are providing the U.S. enough information to vet their citizens appropriately, a Homeland Security official said. This review period could also be used as leverage to force countries to take back people that the U.S. would like to deport, the official said.

There is also no waiver for religious minorities in the new temporary refugee ban.

Trump also said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network on the day the first order was issued that it was intended to help Christian Syrians.

An estimated 60,000 visa-holders were blocked from entering the country, including some who were already on airplanes bound for the U.S. The administration later clarified the order to allow citizens from the seven affected countries who hold legal permanent residence in the U.S. to enter the country without a waiver.

 Department of Homeland Security statement

Fourteen years ago on March 1, 2003, DHS was established. We did so as a nation because we needed to rethink our approach to homeland security. Many will recall the conclusions we reached then; that we needed to overcome a “lack of imagination” with regard to the threats we faced, and, second, that we needed to overcome our collective inability to take the dots of intelligence and arrange them into a more comprehensive picture of the threats posed to America and our way of life.

“Though much has changed since then, both in the world and at DHS, it is clear that Americans are not invulnerable to terrorist threats, and that our enemies will exploit our freedoms and generosity to harm us.

“The Executive Order signed today by President Trump will make America safer, and address long-overdue concerns about the security of our immigration system. We must undertake a rigorous review of our visa and refugee vetting programs to increase our confidence in the entry decisions we make for visitors and immigrants to the United States. We cannot risk the prospect of malevolent actors using our immigration system to take American lives.

“The Executive Order signed today is prospective in nature—applying only to foreign nationals outside of the United States who do not have a valid visa. It is important to note that nothing in this executive order affects current lawful permanent residents or persons with current authorization to enter our country. If you have a current valid visa to travel, we welcome you. But unregulated, unvetted travel is not a universal privilege, especially when national security is at stake.

“The Department of Homeland Security has worked closely with the Department of Justice, the Department of State, and the White House to create an executive order that addresses our information concerns while protecting the homeland and our citizens.

“The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security—like their brothers and sisters throughout law enforcement—are decent Americans of character and conscience. They are no less so than the governors of our states and territories, of our senators and members of the congress, of our city mayors and advocacy groups. They are sworn to enforce the laws as passed by the U.S. Congress and would be in violation of the law—and their sworn oaths—if they did not do so. We will continue to work closely with our operating components and across government to implement and enforce it humanely, respectfully, and with professionalism.

“I want to thank the President for his leadership on this issue and his steadfast support of DHS’ important law enforcement, security, and counterterrorism missions.”