Farah: Trump has made me an alien

Britain's four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah says 

he is "relieved" he can return to his US home after it was clarified that President Donald Trump's travel ban did
 not apply to him.

Somali nationals are among those banned from travelling 
to the US under the executive order issued on Friday.

That had applied to Farah, who was born in Somalia, until
 the announcement by the UK Foreign Office late on
 Sunday.

Farah, 33, called Trump's policy "divisive and 
discriminatory".

Trump's executive order halted the entire US refugee programme and also instituted a 90-day travel ban for nationals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria
 and Yemen.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson held conversations with the US government on Sunday.

The Foreign Office then advised British travellers that 
dual citizens were only affected if travelling to the US
 from one of the seven banned countries.

"We understand from the statement released this evening
 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that the 
executive order will not apply to Mo, and we are grateful
 to the FCO for urgently clarifying the situation, "said a spokesperson for Farah, who has lived in Oregon for six 
years with his family.

"Mo is relieved that he will be able to return to his family
 once his current training camp concludes."

The statement added that Farah "still fundamentally 
disagrees with this incredibly divisive and discriminatory policy".

Writing on his Facebook page earlier on Sunday, Farah
 had said:

"On 1 January this year, Her Majesty The Queen made 
me a Knight of the Realm. On 27 January, President 
Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien."

Farah said he believed Trump's policy "comes from a place
 of ignorance and prejudice" and that his own story was 
"an example of what can happen when you follow 
polices of compassion and understanding, not hate and isolation".

Farah, who moved to Britain aged eight, is at a training 
camp in Ethiopia as part of his preparations for
 August's World Championships in London, and is not 
planning to return to the US for a number of weeks.