Attorneys filed at least 65 lawsuits on behalf of hundreds of international students whose records were terminated from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), according to an ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration made a sudden about-face Friday and announced in court it will return thousands of foreign students to active status after terminating their records in a ...

Until that policy is issued, no students will have their online student-visa records, known as SEVIS records, terminated “solely based on” criminal history checks that had flagged misdemeanor ...

But as of late last night, the federal government is reversing course and reinstating students’ SEVIS records. Elora Mukherjee, director of the Columbia Law School Immigrant Rights Center, first heard ...

Those students had been affected by a mass termination of records in a government student visa system, known as SEVIS, administered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The effort ...

The Trump administration’s reversal was a key win in dozens of lawsuits across the country that argued that eliminating thousands of students’ SEVIS records without notice was unconstitutional. But ...

Department of Justice attorneys told the court immigration officials are working to create a new system to review and terminate the records for international students, known as SEVIS, that are ...

The SEVIS database also tracks schools' disciplinary action against students or any criminal charges filed against them. ICE had begun suddenly terminating thousands of students' SEVIS records in ...