The Trump administration is restoring thousands of foreign students' records, the Department of Justice announced on Friday. In a federal court hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Carilli said foreign students will return to "active" status in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, also known as SEVIS, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) develops a new termination framework. SEVIS is a database used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that supplements foreign student visas and tracks activity at universities each semester. Earlier this month, the SEVIS records of over 4,700 students were inexplicably terminated by ICE, which left many panicked and confused, believing their immigration status had been changed. Although a terminated SEVIS record doesn't automatically mean a visa has been revoked, DHS's guidance outlines penalties for termination that include being unauthorized to work on- or off-campus and unable to reenter the U.S., even though both are allowed with… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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