The White House reflects a course on the end of the foreign students visa

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The Trump administration reflected the path on ending visa records for hundreds of foreign students, running on increasing criticism and legal provisions of its campaign to pressure against universities.

In the court file on Friday, the Ministry of Justice said that it will restore the required records to be qualified to obtain a student visa until it issued a new policy on how to legally abolish the rights of students to study in the United States.

Follow the sudden reflection criticism from American universitiesWhich depends on foreign students who pay huge education fees. Students also filed lawsuits against the Trump administration regarding the cancellation of the visa.

The transformation is another sign of the turmoil in Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to combat immigration, which witnessed federal courts Ruling Some of the most controversial deportations in management.

On Friday, the decision leaves the uncertainty about the future of about 1500 students who have lost the visa status. Fanta Ah, CEO of NAFSA, a group of universities participating in international education, said it is still unclear whether students who left the United States will be able to re -apply for visas and receive them in consulates abroad.

The Ministry of Justice said on Friday that it will restore the records that were cleansed from the visitor information system for students and exchange (SEVIS), many of which were terminated without any explanation. Some of the visa’s fines were the result of simple misdemeanors, such as traffic crimes.

“We have not followed the opposite to nullify one visa. What we did is to restore Sevis’s access to people who have not been canceled a visa.”

This procedure does not affect the separate wave of arrests and deportations that targeted foreign students accused of threatening national security because of their association with the pro -Palestinians protests.

She warned that the Trump administration’s decision to stop removing records from SEVIS does not indicate a square for foreign students, but instead it can lead to new and tougher regulations.

“This is just a separation with more in the future,” said AW. “It is imagined that the administration will return with new regulations that would allow any violations to be sufficient reasons for cancellation.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Additional reports by Steve Chavez in Washington