KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Six international students at Western Michigan University have had their Student and Exchange Visitor Information System statuses reinstated by the federal government.
Several of them have sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and while the government last Friday reinstated over a thousand students nationwide, attorney Adriana Kemish says they have work to do.
Kemish is representing the WMU students and says the federal case is working to prevent the government from repeating the same action against other students.
She has advised the students they should not travel out of the country due to the risk they won’t be allowed back in.
One student is a 27-year-old man from India who had a misdemeanor charge of retail fraud and a speeding ticket dismissed after he completed probation in January of this year. He is expected to graduate this year with a master’s degree in industrial engineering.
Another is a 31-year-old woman from China who is married to a U.S. citizen, has one U.S. citizen daughter and is pregnant with her second child. She got a speeding ticket in 2020, but it was dismissed in 2021.
The third student is a 27-year-old man from Nepal. He is working on an aerospace engineering doctorate and had a traffic citation dismissed after he paid a fine.
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