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After the Trump administration agreed — for the time being — to reinstate the records of international students who have had their Student and Exchange Visitor Information System records terminated, a new student visa hearing held just hours later reveals how unresponsiveness by ICE and a cumbersome process of restoring the documents might lead judges to still move full speed ahead with preventative actions in the dozens of cases that currently hang in the balance.
In this afternoon’s status conference on the case of Hamidreza Khademi, a 34-year-old master’s student at Iowa State University, government counsel Joseph Carilli laid out the change of plans — but told an exasperated Judge Sparkle Sooknanan that he was unable to get any additional answers out of ICE in the last two weeks on whether Khademi’s specific records had been restored or when they could expect that to happen. All he knows is that there is a manual process for each record that ICE must change back, meaning it could take quite some time.
Carilli also said that, even though the records will be reinstated as the cases are decided, they could be terminated again if an individual commits an offense that warrants it. For Khademi and others who say their records were terminated unjustly in the first place, the question remains whether they might see a repeat in their future.
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