Over 200 college students faraway from SEVIS have received court docket orders briefly barring the administration from taking actions in opposition to them, in keeping with a Reuters depend, together with Boston College pupil Carrie Zheng.
Shortly earlier than a Friday listening to in her case, US District Decide F. Dennis Saylor stated he had obtained an electronic mail from a lawyer from the federal government alerting him to a change in place by ICE.
Based on that electronic mail, ICE was now “creating a coverage that may present a framework for SEVIS report terminations.” Till that coverage is issued, the SEVIS data for Zheng and equally located plaintiffs will stay energetic or might be restored, the e-mail stated.
In a court docket submitting afterward Friday, the Division of Justice stated the college students reinstated in SEVIS comprised each those that sued the federal government and those that didn’t.
US Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin in a press release stated the company, which oversees ICE, didn’t reverse course on visa revocations however restored SEVIS entry “for individuals who had not had their visa revoked.”
Saylor stated that on condition that the reactivation of the SEVIS data for the college students would take a while, he would lengthen a brief restraining order he beforehand issued barring immigration officers from arresting or deporting Zheng.
Zheng’s attorneys didn’t reply to a request for remark.
