President Donald Trump’s administration is reinstating international student visa records that it previously revoked. The announcement was made Friday, amid a slew of court cases filed by impacted students in recent weeks. 

Attorneys for the students argued that the cancellations were unlawful since many students weren’t given a clear reason for the terminations. Others were told they had criminal records, which consisted of parking tickets or other low-level violations with civil penalties — and even some cases where students were the victims, not the perpetrators.

VPM News previously reported that at least 40 Virginia college students and recent graduates had been impacted.

By Monday, all 19 affected Virginia Tech students had their legal statuses restored, according to Mark Owczarski, interim vice president for communications and marketing at Virginia Tech.

The university announced the record restoration process was underway Friday: Owczarski said 11 of the 19 had their records restored that day. He told VPM News that students remained enrolled at Virginia Tech throughout the changes to their legal status.

“When students learned of their change in legal status, we met with each one and helped them understand their options so that their academic status and course work had the least impact possible,” Owczarski said in a statement.

Of the 15 George Mason University students impacted by the Trump administration’s recent actions, 14 have also had their visa records restored, according to media relations manager John Hollis.

One student’s visa was revoked, “but his SEVIS record was never terminated,” according to Hollis. SEVIS is a federal database used to track and monitor student and exchange visitor information; it contains students’ I-20 paperwork, which is used to establish student visa eligibility.

Hollis also said that seven of the impacted GMU students are still in the US, while eight have since left the country.

As of April 27, one University of Virginia student and two recent graduates also had their visa statuses restored to “active” as well, according to spokesperson Bethanie Glover.

“University officials will continue to closely monitor emerging federal government policy,” Glover said in a statement to VPM News. “We will alert any affected student to any future changes in their status and offer all appropriate support.”

Glover said when a UVA student’s legal status is impacted, “we will work to determine whether continuing their program of study remotely is a viable option.”

Michael Porter, associate vice president for public relations with Virginia Commonwealth University, also confirmed to VPM News that two VCU students and one recent graduate have also had their record terminations reversed.

These four institutions are the only known public four-year universities in Virginia impacted by the federal-level revocations.

Miriam Feldblum, CEO of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, previously told VPM News that many of the student record terminations upended “regular practice” because colleges, not federal officials, are usually the ones to change students’ I-20 documentation — which sets up their eligibility for a student visa.

However, the Trump administration says the termination reversals are only temporary: According to court documents, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is developing a new policy “that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations.”

Feldblum told VPM News on Tuesday that even though the federal government reactivated students’ records, that didn’t erase the notation or information officials put in when they terminated the records — and she fears that could negatively impact students going forward.

“For these students, that may cause significant difficulties for when they want to adjust status in the future, perhaps when they’re wanting to come back into the country or get a new visa,” Feldblum. “It can present a type of red flag: ‘There’s something on this record.’”

Her organization is involved with ongoing litigation seeking to ensure the record terminations are fully erased from the system — and gain insight into what the basis for those terminations was in the first place.

But right now, Feldblum said there are more questions than answers about what all of this means for international students who have been studying in the US: “There's still such a lack of clarity, there's confusion.”

A. Scott Fleming, director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, told VPM News that he’s unsure of the Trump administration’s ultimate policy outcome here.

“It just seems like there's a lot of chaos that leads to almost–business as usual," Fleming said.