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Immigration Partial Unannounced
ICE reverses mass termination of international student records
4,700+ student SEVIS records restored
Original action
ICE terminated the SEVIS records of more than 4,700 international students, threatening their legal status, many based on name matches in a criminal-history index.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- SEVIS / F-1 student status
Reversal
Following a series of court rulings, the DOJ announced ICE would restore the previously terminated SEVIS records and said it would no longer terminate status solely based on criminal-index findings while it developed a new framework.
- Mechanism: court-forced
Notes
Records were quietly restored in the SEVIS database; ICE simultaneously signaled a new termination framework, leaving future status uncertain.