ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says

By JANIE HAR and KATE BRUMBACK The federal cabinet is reversing the termination of legal status for international students after countless filed court challenges around the U S a regime lawyer noted Friday Related Articles FBI director says a judge accused of helping someone evade immigration agents has been arrested Ex-US Rep George Santos sentenced to over years in prison for fraud and identity theft Wall Street s rally fades as more CEOs talk about uncertainty because of Trump s bargain war In the present day in History April conference opens to create the Charter of the United Nations A Detroit nonprofit s former finance chief gets years for million theft Judges around the country had already issued temporary orders restoring the students records in a federal database of international students maintained by U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE The records had been suddenly terminated in latest weeks often without the students or their schools being notified A lawyer for the leadership read a comment in federal court in Oakland that mentioned ICE was manually restoring the novice status for people whose records were terminated in up-to-date weeks A similar comment was read by a cabinet attorney in a separate matter in Washington on Friday explained lawyer Brian Green who represents the plaintiff in that affair Green provided The Associated Press with a copy of the comment that the authorities lawyer emailed to him It says ICE is evolving a agenda that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations Until such a framework is issued the SEVIS records for plaintiff s in this episode and other similarly situated plaintiffs will remain Ongoing or shall be re-activated if not as of now operational and ICE will not modify the record solely based on the NCIC finding that resulted in the fresh SEVIS record termination Green declared that the governing body lawyer explained it would apply to all students in the same situation not just those who had filed lawsuits SEVIS is the Pupil and Exchange Visitor Information Systems database that tracks international students compliance with their visa status NCIC is the National Crime Information Center which is maintained by the FBI A multitude of of the students whose records were terminated were reported that their status was terminated as a end of a criminal records check or that their visa had been revoked International students and their schools were caught off guard by the terminations of the students records Countless of the terminations were discovered when school officers were doing routine checks of the international trainee database or when they checked specifically after hearing about other terminations