CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Both of ACLU-WV’s international student clients have had their legal statuses restored and are able to resume attending classes, according to letters from their schools.
These developments come amid national reports that many, but not all, international students were seeing their statuses restored in the SEVIS system.
ACLU-WV issued the following statement:
“This is positive news not just for our two clients in West Virginia, but for international students across the country. We are continuing to monitor the situation closely, particularly the announcement that ICE will be developing new policies for revoking legal statuses.
We want to be clear that the administration is backing down not because it’s the right thing to do, but because they have been dragged to court repeatedly and lost again and again.”