The U.S. federal government has decided to reverse recent terminations of legal status for international students following multiple court challenges. Many students had found their records abruptly terminated, often without any prior notification. Courts have issued temporary orders to restore their status in the SEVIS database used by ICE. A government lawyer stated that a new policy is being developed regarding record terminations while ensuring that current active records remain unaffected during this interim period, which applies broadly to affected students, not just to litigants.
ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations. Until such a policy is issued, the SEVIS records for plaintiff(s) in this case (and other similarly situated plaintiffs) will remain Active or shall be re-activated if not currently active and ICE will not modify the record solely based on the NCIC finding.
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.
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