International students who snatched from legal status in America are winning court

Atlanta: Anjaan Roy was studying with friends Missouri state university When he received an email, which turned his world upside down. His legal status as an international student was abolished, and he was suddenly in danger of exile.
“I was literally shocked, like, what is it?” Roy said, a graduate student in computer science from Bangladesh.
First, he avoided going out publicly, left the classrooms and mostly turned off his phone. A court in his favor restored his position this week due to the verdict, and he has returned to his apartment, but he is still asking his roommates to screen visitors.
More than a thousand international students have faced similar disruptions in recent weeks, with their educational career – and their lives in the US were thrown into suspicion in a widespread crack by their lives. Tusrap Administration. Some have found a measure of success in the court, federal judges across the country have issued orders to minimize the legal status of students.
In addition to the case filed in Atlanta, where Roy is one of the 133 plains, judges have issued temporary preventive orders in states including New Hampshire, Visconsin, Montana, Oregon and states. WashingtonThe judges denied similar requests in some other cases, saying that it was not clear that there would be irreparable losses from the loss of the situation.
International students, on the basis of the challenge for the state, said their position cancellation that Marco Rubio said that last month the state department was canceling the visa organized by the visitors, who were working as a counter for national interests, some of which opposed the Israeli war in Gaza and who face criminal charges. But many affected students stated that they are involved only in minor violations, or it is not clear why they were targeted.
Lawyer for Roy and his partner Wadi, CharlesArgued that the government did not have a legal basis to eliminate the status of students.
He estimated in the court last week that the government was trying to encourage these students to self-depletion, saying that “the pressure on these students is heavy.” He said some asked him if it was safe to leave his homes to get food, and others were worried whether they would not get a degree after work or fear of career possibility in America.
“I think they will just leave,” Cook said. “The reality is that these children are invested.”
A lawyer for the government, R. David Powell argued that students did not suffer significant damage as they could transfer their academic credit or get jobs in another country.
At least 1,100 students in 174 colleges, universities and university systems have canceled their visas or ended their legal status since the end of March, according to an associated press review of university statements, correspondence with school officials and court records. AP is working to confirm the reports of hundreds and students who are trapped in the crack.
Four people filed on Monday on student visa University of iowaThe lawyers have expanded “mental and financial pain” they have experienced. A graduate student, from India, “cannot sleep and having difficulty in breathing and eating,” reads the case. He has stopped going to school, doing research or working as a teaching assistant. Another student, a Chinese graduate, who expected to graduate in this December, said his cancellation has caused his depression to deteriorate that his doctor has increased his drug dose. The student, the lawsuit, says, has not left his apartment out of fear Imprisonment,
Tiny Infraction targeted students for 23 -year -old Kracdown Roy, starting her academic career Missouri state In August 2024 as a graduate computer science student. He was active in the Chess Club and a community and is a broad circle of his friends. After graduating in December, he began work on a master’s degree in January and expected to end in May 2026.
When Roy received an email of April 10 of the university at the end of his position, a friend of his offered to leave the class to go to the school’s international service office, even though he had a quiz in 45 minutes. The staff there said that a database check revealed that his student’s situation was abolished, but he did not know why.
Roy said that his only brush with the law came in 2021, when he was questioned by the Campus Security after he was called into a dispute at a university residence building. But he said that an official determined that there is no evidence of any crime and no allegations have been made.
Roy also received an email from the US embassy in Bangladesh, stating that his visa was canceled and could be detained at any time. Warned that if he is deported, he can be sent to any other country other than himself. Roy thought of leaving America but decided to stay after talking to a lawyer.
Concerned about being in his own apartment, Roy went to live with his second cousin and her husband.
Roy said, “They were afraid that someone was going to pick me up from the road and was taking me somewhere.”
He was mostly inside, turned off his phone until he needed to use it, and avoided the Internet browsers that track user data through cookies. His professor was thinking that when he told him that he would not be able to come to classes for some time, he said.
Following the judge’s order on Friday, new suspicion about the future of students in the US, he went back to his apartment. He learned on Tuesday that his situation was restored, and he plans to return to class. But he is still nervous. He asked both his two roommates, both international students, before opening the door, tell them if no one knows them.
The restoration of his legal status of the judge is temporary. Another hearing set for Thursday will determine if he continues to prosecute, while he maintains the situation.
Roy chose America on other options in Canada and Australia as due to research opportunities and ability to professional connections, and he eventually wanted to teach at an American university. But now those plans are in the air.
His parents, back in Dhaka, are watching the news and “taking out,” he said. His father mentioned him that he has a family in Melbourne, Australia, including a cousin who is an assistant professor in a university there. ,
AP correspondent Christopher L. Hannah Fingerhat contributed to the story in Keller Albuquruck, New Mexico, and Des Moines, Iowa.