The anxiety that had gripped young foreign nationals on American campuses is set to ease, at least temporarily. The Trump administration has reversed the cancelation of visas that had affected several thousand students over the past few weeks in major universities across the country. Dozens of lawsuits had been filed against this wave of removals, which were neither officially announced nor justified.

The turnaround was not announced by the government, but during several court sessions held in the country. Administration lawyers conveyed on Friday, April 25, the decision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which manages the federal database on foreign students (SEVIS, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System), to cancel previous revocation measures and restore the affected visas.

According to the statement read before the federal court in Oakland, California, by Deputy Prosecutor Elizabeth Kurlan, "ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations." In the meantime, the cases "will remain active or shall be reactivated," she announced.

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