British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Associated Press) 
 
 British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Associated Press) 
 
 British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Associated Press) British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Associated Press) 
 
 LONDON (AP) — A state visit to Britain by President Donald Trump later this year will go ahead, the prime minister's office said Monday, despite increasing calls for it to be canceled over his temporary ban on residents of seven majority-Muslim countries entering the U.S. 
 
 Furor over the travel ban has tarnished what British officials had considered a highly successful trip to Washington by Prime Minister Theresa May. She met Trump at the White House on Friday and announced that he had been invited to come to Britain later this year as the guest of Queen Elizabeth II. 
 
 May's Downing St. office said Monday that "an invitation has been extended and accepted," and the visit is still on. 
 
 No date has been announced for the state visit, which involves lavish pomp and ceremony, generally with a stay at Buckingham Palace. 
 
 The visit was hailed by government officials as a sign of the close trans-Atlantic relationship, which was also reflected in May's invitation to meet Trump just a week after his inauguration. 
 
 But criticism of May's wooing of Trump erupted when — only hours after the prime minister had left the White House — the president signed an executive order suspending all travel to the U.S. of citizens of Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya for 90 days. The order also bars all refugees entering the country for 120 days. 
 
 Britain's three biggest opposition parties have all called for Trump's state visit to be canceled and an online petition opposing the trip has more than 1 million signatures. Protests against the travel ban are planned Monday in London and other British cities. 
 
 Any petition with more than 100,000 signatures must be considered for a debate in Parliament, though not a binding vote. 
 
 Last year, Parliament debated whether to ban Trump, then a presidential candidate, from visiting Britain after a similar online petition was filed. 
 
 Trump's travel ban sparked protests at airports across the U.S., along with expressions of condemnation and concern from around the world. 
 
 There was widespread confusion about whether the ban applied to dual nationals. Somali-born British Olympic champion runner Mo Farah said he feared it would prevent him returning to the U.S., where he lives. 
 
 Late Sunday, Britain's Foreign Office said U.S. authorities had clarified that the ban didn't apply to British citizens who are also nationals of one of the seven countries. Canada's foreign minister said he had been told the same about Canadian dual nationals. 
 
 However, the website of the U.S. Embassy in London advised nationals of the seven countries — "including dual nationals" — not to book visa appointments, saying their applications would not be processed. 
 
 The U.S. Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
 The British exemption didn't end the storm of opposition, with prominent members of May's Conservative Party joining in calls for Trump's visit to be scrapped. 
 
 Sayeeda Warsi, a former government minister and Conservative member of the House of Lords, said it was "sending out a wrong signal" to invite Trump, a leaders whose values "are not the same as British values." 
 
 Conservative lawmaker Sarah Wollaston said Trump should not be invited to address both houses of Parliament, an honor given to many visiting foreign leaders. 
 
 She said that "those who wish to fawn over him" should do so elsewhere. 
 
 Former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, a Trump ally, said "British politicians are sheer hypocrites" to oppose the travel ban as they had not objected when President Barack Obama imposed what Farage called a six-month ban on Iraqis. 
 
 In 2011 the U.S. imposed stringent checks on Iraqi refugees after two Iraqis were charged with terrorism offenses in Kentucky. It did not ban all travelers from Iraq, however. ||||| HM Government recognises the strong views expressed by the many signatories of this petition, but does not support this petition. 
 
 During her visit to the United States on 27 January 2017, the Prime Minister, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, invited President Trump for a State Visit to the UK later this year. The invitation was accepted. This invitation reflects the importance of the relationship between the United States of America and the United Kingdom. At this stage, final dates have not yet been agreed for the State Visit. 
 
 Foreign and Commonwealth Office ||||| The petition to stop Donald Trump’s state visit because it would “embarrass the Queen” has reached over a million signatures over the past few days. 
 
 It is now the second most popular petition on the official Government website, second only to the four million people who asked for a second EU referendum. 
 
 The third most popular petition asked the Government to give the Meningitis B vaccine to all children, not just newborns, and it gained 823,348 signatures.
– A state visit to Britain by President Trump later this year will go ahead, the prime minister's office said Monday, despite increasing calls for it to be canceled over his temporary ban on residents of seven majority-Muslim countries from traveling to the US, the AP reports. Furor over the travel ban has tarnished what British officials had considered a highly successful trip to Washington by Prime Minister Theresa May. She met Trump at the White House on Friday and announced he'd been invited to come to Britain later this year as Queen Elizabeth II's guest. Only hours after she'd left the White House, the president signed his executive order. May's Downing St. office said Monday "an invitation has been extended and accepted," and the visit is still on. No date has been announced for the state visit, which involves lavish pomp and ceremony, generally with a stay at Buckingham Palace. Britain's three biggest opposition parties have called for the visit's cancellation, and an online petition opposing it currently has 1.3 million signatures. Per the Telegraph, it's now the second-most popular petition on the government's website, behind the 4 million people asking for a 2nd EU referendum. The petition argues "Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government, but he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen." Any petition with more than 100,000 signatures must be considered for a debate in Parliament, though not a binding vote. Protests against the ban are planned Monday in London.