It’s like somebody flipped a light switch on,” said one attorney whose client had a visa termination suddenly reversed.

Judges around the country had already issued temporary orders restoring the students’ records in a federal database of international students maintained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The records had been suddenly terminated in recent weeks, often without the students or their schools being notified.

Judges around the country had already issued temporary orders restoring the students' records in a federal database.