Hundreds of foreign students ask the Georgia judge to remedy the visa crisis before graduation

Atlanta (CN) – Hundreds of international college students asked a federal judge on Thursday to resume their legal status and to resume their work and studies after the government abruptly ended their immigration documents.

“My tendency is to grant a relief,” said the US district judge Victoria Calvert, a Joe Biden representative.

In the lawsuit, 133 students from universities across the country said that the US immigration and customs authority illegally ended its records of Sevis, a government database that pursues compliance with the F-1 student visa by the international students.

This termination of a Sevis data set effectively ends the status of the F-1 student. If your application for temporary injunction is not granted, the students claim that you are suspended without your academic position and employment.

Calvert said she will take the case under advice and will make a decision within the coming weeks after submitting your answer.

“Whatever I do is taken into account by other judges. I would like to make sure that my analysis is correct,” she said.

Attorney Charles Kuck told the judge that the students have caused an irreparable damage because many are about to be busy at the next month or who have accepted job offers after the conclusion.

He added that they paid thousands of dollars to American universities. International students are not beneficial for financial support for the federal government, and their ability to pay tuition fees are often the facts on whether they are included in schools.

One of the messages told a student that he should go in 15 days, which is not the law, Kuck told the judge. He argued that the government's actions seem to force students to give up their studies and report themselves, even though they do not violate their status.

“I think the hope is that they just go, but the reality is that these children are invested here,” said Kuck.

All students in the complaint fully agreed with the conditions of their visa status, said Kuck, who enables a student to stay in the United States, as long as he maintains a complete course of study, avoid unemployment and not be condemned with a potential prison sentence of more than a year.

None of the students received an appropriate announcement or an explanation of why their records were terminated or revoked Visa, argued Kuck in violation of their adequate procedural rights.

They received a termination from a school officer or an email from a consulate with the reason for the termination that they did not maintain the status or were identified in a criminal register examination.

Kuck said, however, that their only criminal history remains of minor offenses, of which many traffic quotes were already paid or dropped.

A student received a DUI order that was reduced to ruthless driving, while some speed tickets had or had been charged with a suspended or expired driver's license due to driving. Another was arrested in 2007 as a minor for a young induction, but the case was rejected to the consular officer during his interview and previously passed on to the consular official in order to receive his student visa.

According to the lawsuit, many of the students' charges were ultimately released or changed.

Kuck said he believes that the terminations without an individual review were carried out by an artificial intelligence program -scanning databases.

David Powell from the U.S. Attorney's office informed the judge that these students should resume their status by submitting an application to a school officer and repaying a SeviS registration fee.

He also argued that the Northern District Court of Georgia may not be the right event location to address the claims, since only 26 of the students attend a college in Georgia. The judge urged Powell to damage the government if it granted a temporary relief until a complete hearing can be held on the merits.

“I am not really convinced that I violate the government's immigration agenda,” said Calvert to him.

Some of the plaintiffs have already completed a degree, but have remained in the country about “optional practical training”, for a year or up to three for science and technology graduates that enable employment in the USA after completing an academic degree. During this time, graduates work in their area and are waiting to receive their H-1B or other employment visa if they want to continue working in the country.

Around 242,000 foreigners in the United States are employed by this “optional practical training”. Around 500,000 follow graduates and another 342,000 are students.

The lawsuit comes in the middle of a wave of foreign students who study in the United States and find that their legal status suddenly ended with little announcement and was committed without a criminal offense.

From Thursday, over 210 universities and universities have identified higher ED graduates via an international student and graduates who have changed their legal status from the Foreign Ministry.

“There is no doubt that what happened here today is a microcosm of a larger movement within the immigration service,” said Kuck after the hearing towards reporters. “There is no doubt that this administration wants foreign students outside the United States, especially from countries that it considers it as undesirable. Never before has such a measure. As a result, we see terror in these students.

Last year, around 1.1 million international students were in the land-a source of essential income for tuition fees.

Last month, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs revoked visitors from visitors who countered the national interests, including some who protested the Israeli war in Gaza, and those who have charges.

Together with Columbia, Harvard and other institutions, President Donald Trump also frozen billions of dollars of federal financing in his own Alma Mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

“We all have to look at what's going on,” said Cory Isaacson from the American Civil Liberties Union after the hearing on Thursday.

“The disregard for the constitution and fundamental rights will extend us all on American soil.”

Several federal judges in other states have already issued temporary interim orders or one -off provisions to prevent the government from terminating the visa of international students.

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