Trump administration reverses US student visa revocations
The United States on Friday reversed its decision to terminate the legal status of hundreds of foreign students studying in the country, Politico reported.
The revocation of the student visas was paused until the Donald Trump administration develops a policy for potentially cancelling the study permits in the future, Reuters reported.
Washington’s decision came after scrutiny and several restraining orders by judges who said that mass termination of student visas from a federal database was illegal, according to Politico.
Records of hundreds of students had been removed from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, a federal database used by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track international students.
However, judges in several states had issued interim orders to reinstate the student records in the system.
More than 1,200 students had lost their legal status or had their visas revoked, the Associated Press reported. This left them at risk of being deported. Many of them said that they had only minor offences on their record.
On Friday, the Department of Justice announced its decision during a court hearing in Boston. The federal judge was hearing a challenge filed by one of the international students suing Washington for revoking their visas.
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