‘I couldn’t imagine it’: F-1 standing of some Indian college students restored after US reverses abrupt termination of visa registration

IT was 3 am in Atlanta on Friday, the 20-year-old scholar from Bengaluru remembers, when the excellent news got here. His standing as an F-1 scholar had been in limbo since April 4 when his document on SEVIS — the Scholar and Trade Customer Info System, a US authorities database that tracks worldwide college students — was terminated following a drunk driving cost that had not led to a conviction. He was making ready to file a lawsuit when, on April 24, his standing on the SEVIS portal confirmed “lively” once more. “I couldn’t imagine it. I used to be nearly to file (the lawsuit)….