The Trump administration is backing down in a multi-state legal fight over sweeping actions taken by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month that jeopardized and potentially terminated the immigration status of thousands of international students studying in the United States.

The Trump administration said on Friday that it is restoring the student visa registrations of potentially thousands of foreign students in the United States whose legal status had recently been abruptly terminated,

The Trump administration said it would restore legal status for hundreds of international students whose visas were canceled in recent weeks, a major policy reversal that follows a spate of lawsuits from students at US universities across the country who had been at risk of deportation.