US Reverses Course on Terminating Foreign Students’ Status (1)

The Department of Homeland Security has begun reinstating the records of international students whose termination from a federal database disrupted their employment and put their lawful status in doubt.

The affected students have filed scores of lawsuits in recent weeks over the abrupt termination of their records from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information Systems database. Those lawsuits, which claimed violations of due process and the Administrative Procedure Act, had already secured temporary restraining orders in multiple courts to restore student records.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which manages the database, hasn’t commented publicly on the basis of the terminations. ...