Lawsuit Over Student Visa Policy Emphasizes Looming Deadline (1)

Jia Ye faces a choice in two weeks: leave the U.S. and violate his contract with the Army, or stay in the country and risk getting barred from re-entering for three years if he ever does leave.

That’s why his attorneys, who are fighting a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy memorandum, are pushing a federal judge in North Carolina to make a decision by Feb. 4. At worst, they say, the memo violates the Immigration and Nationality Act. At best, it should’ve gone through a public notice and comment process.

The USCIS enacted “an enormous policy change” by posting ...