SEVIS Visa Termination
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The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is the federal database that tracks the legal status of international students. In spring 2025, the Trump administration terminated SEVIS records for thousands of students, often with no individualized notice and for minor infractions or errors, effectively rendering them unlawfully present. Courts have issued emergency TROs restoring student status in dozens of cases, treating the terminations as likely arbitrary-and-capricious agency action.
SEVIS Visa Termination
Case No. 5:25-cv-00847
Early SEVIS termination challenge that reached a decided disposition, establishing the APA arbitrary-and-capricious standard as the governing legal framework for mass SEVIS cancellations.
SEVIS Visa Termination
Case No. 4:25-cv-03140
N.D. Cal. SEVIS challenge on behalf of international students whose records were terminated without individualized notice or opportunity to respond to the alleged infractions.
SEVIS Visa Termination
Case No. 2:25-cv-00633
Western district SEVIS challenge consolidating claims by multiple affected students whose status was terminated for minor traffic violations or database errors.
SEVIS Visa Termination
Case No. 4:25-cv-03244
N.D. Cal. SEVIS termination challenge before Judge White seeking emergency TRO restoring student status and enjoining DHS from effecting removals based on the voided SEVIS records.
SEVIS Visa Termination
Case No. 4:25-cv-00174
Arizona district court SEVIS challenge before Judge Zipps that reached a decided disposition on the due-process rights of students subjected to termination without hearing.
SEVIS Visa Termination
Case No. 3:25-cv-00283
Western District of Wisconsin SEVIS challenge before Judge Conley; reached a decided disposition addressing the administration's post-litigation offer to reactivate SEVIS records selectively.
SEVIS Visa Termination
Case No. 1:25-cv-11109
D. Mass. SEVIS class-action challenge pressing due-process and APA claims on behalf of a broader cohort of affected students as the administration signaled partial policy reversal.