The scene at Dulles on Saturday. (Photo by Alex Edelman)

More than 100,000 visas were revoked as a result of Donald Trump’s travel ban, a Justice Department attorney said in federal court today.

The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff reports that there was an audible gasp in the courtroom at the number, and it became evident that the visas aren’t just unusable for the 90-day period but voided. A State Department memo released several days after it was issued said the visas are “provisionally” revoked.

When asked for confirmation that the visas are permanently null during a briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer responded: “I’ll have to get back to you on that.”

The State Department says the 100,000 number is inflated by expired and diplomatic visas and the true amount is less than 60,000, according to the Associated Press.

The ban, which President Donald Trump signed last Friday, temporarily prevents citizens and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. Its immediate implementation led to chaos and detentions at airports across the globe, widespread protests at U.S. airports, and multiple legal challenges.

The 100,000 figure was revealed during a hearing in a Virginia case involving two Yemeni green card holders.

The commonwealth joined a preexisiting lawsuit called Aziz v. Trump, which alleges that two brothers were coerced into giving up their green cards while being held in secondary detention at Dulles International airport.

A temporary restraining order from a Virginia federal court judge on Saturday required lawyers have access to legal permanent residents who were being held up at Dulles, though attorneys on the ground say that CPB violated that order. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema extended the order during today’s hearing.

Yesterday, attorneys for the commonwealth filed a motion seeking to put the onus on border officials to prove they’re not in contempt of court.

Brinkema also allowed Virginia to intervene in the case, meaning that the lawsuit can continue even if the individual plaintiffs’ cases are resolved.

“President Trump’s unlawful, unconstitutional, and un-American immigration ban is causing real harm as we speak to Virginia families, students, businesses, and our colleges and universities. I’m really glad the judge recognized the harm and allowed our case to move forward,” Herring said in a statement, adding that his office is working to help students at Virginia universities return to the country.

A lawyer for the DOJ was unable to give a total of how many people were turned away from Dulles as a result of the ban.

According to the Washington Post, the federal government is working to individually resolve the cases of valid visa holders who were turned away over the weekend. The Yemeni brothers, Tareq and Ammar Aqel Mohammed Aziz, and other plaintiffs have been offered new new visas if they agree to drop their suits. The judge called it a good step, but said it doesn’t go far enough.

“It’s quite clear not all the thinking went into it that should have gone into [the executive order]. As a result, there was chaos,” she said.

Around the same time as her ruling, over 100 people kneeled for an hour in protest of the ban in the concrete parking lot outside JFK’s Terminal 4.

“There’s rhetoric, then there’s reality,” says Tahanie Aboushi an attorney in New York and an organizer with NoBanJFK. “And the reality is that the people affected by this ban have already been identified, verified, fingerprinted, and granted approval by the Department of Homeland Security to enter the United States of America.”

Reporting contributed by Emma Whitford. This post has been updated.