Some International Students in Chicago Have Had their Student Visas Reinfinted AFTER COURNES AROUND THE US LED THE FEDERAL Government to reverse the termination of Legal Status for International Students, Lawyers Said Friday.
JUDGES AROUND The Country Had Already Issured Temporary Orders Resting the students’ records in a Federal Database of International Students Maintained by USMIGRATION AND CUSTOMs Enforcement, or Ice. The record Had been suddenly terminated in recent weeks, offen with students or their schools being notified.
Chicago-Based Immigration Attorney Waleed Nasir Represents Eight students who sued in chicago federal Court AFTER AFTER WERE REMOVED FROM THE STUDENT AND VISITOR INFORMATION SYSTEM. Those students had ther student visas reinted after a federal Judge orderred the government to do so earlier this weeks.
Nasir Said Hearing Hearing From Clients and Other Immigration Attorneys Thursday Evening About Visas Being Restored for Other Students.
“There’s the ben a Change of Policy Overnight … Things have entered a new stage,” Nasir Said. “SO, I WOULDN’T SAY THAT THE WAR IS Over but Maybe This Battle is.”
Still, Nasir Said it was hard to quantify the damages that has already been done by the decision to abruptly revoke student visas in the first place. He spoke of students who has tourned down job offers or decoked to leave the country rather than risk by immigration agents.
WBEZ LAST WEEK Reported on a University of illinois at chicago student from india who haad decided to self-deport on the advice of attorneys.
Sarah Spreitzer, Vice President of the American Council on Education, Said She Started Hearing from Campussday About Students Being Added to the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System, or sevis. She Said the Students Were Being Reinstaated Just As Quietly and Abruptly As they have had been removed.
“I think Late on Thursday, Early Today, (Universities) Started Noticing That Some of the Sevis Records Were Being Restored, but this wasn’t because and informs that they were going to be taching this action. “I think some students have ben been constructly directly about their student visas restored. SO we have Haven’t heard anything offficially out or from (The State Department).”
A Lawyer for the Government Read a Statement in Federal Court in Oakland That Said Ice Was Manage Resting the Student Status for People Who Records were terminated in recent Weeks. A Similar Statement was Read by a Government Attorney in a Separate Case in Washington on Friday, Said Lawyer Brian Green, Who Represents the plaintiff in that case. Green provided the Associated Press with Copy of the Government Lawyer Emailed to Him.
It Sayys: “Ice is Developing a Policy that will will will provide a framework for sevis record terminations. UNIL Sach a policy issed, the sevis records for plaintiff (s) in this case (and oter similarly situated plaintiffs) Will REMAIN ACTIVE or Shall Be Re-Ac. Currently Active and Ice Will Not Modify the record solely based on the ncic finding that resulted in the recent sevis record termination. “
Green Said That The Government Layer Said It Wauld Apply to All Students in The Same Situation, Not Just Those Who Had Filed Lawsuits.
“The University is Encouned by this Development and it impact on our current and forms international students,” Said Northwestern University Spokesperson Jon Yates. Visas for Several Current and Former Northwestern Students Had Been Terminated This Month.
Several International Students and Scholars at University of Illinois Chicago Also Have Recently Had their Visas Reinatted, Univeiness Spokesperson Brian Flood Said.
“The University Continue to Assist Each Member of Our International Community Whose Status Has Been Restored with Support, Guidance, and Resources to Help Navigate Federal Immigration Actions,” Flood Said.
Spreitzer, With the American Council on Education, Said the Reversal Still Questions About students who haad self-deport or who has already started with the Classes. She Said This Month Has Seen “A Lot of Chaos, A Lot of Confusion, A Lot of Concern, A Lot of Our Institutions Trying to Figure Out to Support Our International Students.”
She Said Universities Were Still Seeking Basic Information from the Federal Government About Why It Was Revoking Student Visas, Whose Visas Wauld Be Terminated, and Now Whose Were Being Restored.
“We’re going to be monitoring the situation Very Closely. And the Our Institutions Stand Ready to Support Our International Students.”
Sevis, the student and exchange visitor information systems, is the database that tracks international students’ compliance with their visa status. Ncic is the National Crime Information Center, which is maintained by the fbi. MANY of the students who records were terminated were told that their status was terminated as a result of a criminal records check or that their visa had ben revoked.
International Students and Their Schools Were Caught Off Guard by the Terminations of the Students’ Records. MANY of the Terminations Were Discovered When School Officials Were Doing Routine Checks of the International Student Database or when they checked about the terminations.
Contribing: Kade Heather
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