The Trump administration is restoring all legal statuses of international students who have had their records terminated in recent weeks, a government attorney said during a hearing on Friday. Elizabeth D.

The Trump administration suddenly backed down on its effort to revoke the visas of thousands of foreign students, according to reports. The administration announced Friday in court that it would return the students to active status after terminating their records in a federal database earlier this month,

The US government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the country after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, federal officials said Friday.