Donald Trump Administration announced the resumption of student visas registrations for potentially thousands of foreign students in the United States, after a period of sudden and often unexplained endings that many people have been at risk of deportation, Reuters reported.
This reversal of student visas for international scholars was revealed during the Federal Court in Boston, where the Ministry of Justice informed the court that US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) would restore the legal status of disabled students and now develop a new political framework for future visa.
The controversy began when ICE, which maintains the monitoring of SEVIS database and monitoring of students and the exchange of visitors (SEVIS) around 1.1 million foreign students, suddenly ended the records of more than 4,700 students since January 2025.
Many foreign students at American universities have not been informed about the events of Trump’s administration, discovered only through routine inspections or after blocking from classes, research or even graduation.
In many cases, the termination was launched by controls of criminal history, which indicated smaller or rejected offenses, but often no clear reason was provided.
The mass termination has caused a widespread panic and more than 100 litigation in at least 23 countries, with judges in dozens of cases issuing orders to temporarily renew the legal status of students.
The US courts expressed frustration from any nature of the ending and the lack of clarity of government lawyers about the ability of students to remain in the country.
In response to increasing legal pressure, ICE has now stated that until a formal policy has been established, Sevis’s records for students in similar situations will remain active or reactivated and no further termination will not only take place on the marked criminal inspections.
It is expected that the Trump administration decision to renew the registration of international visa students, not just those who filed litigation and offer relief to thousands of foreign students whose academic and professional future has been thrown into uncertainty.
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