More than 1,500 international students across the country have been living in fear after their student visas were suddenly cancelled in recent weeks, even if they had done nothing wrong.
“The SEVIS terminations in recent weeks have created a sense of deep, deep unsettlement, deep fear across many international students, regardless of whether they’ve been personally affected,” said Elora Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, in an interview with Morning Edition.
After weeks of confusion and legal battles, the Department of Justice said on April 25 it has restored, or plans to restore, the records of hundreds of students in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS. Without those records, students couldn’t stay in the U.S., even if they were about to graduate or still in good standing with their schools.
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