In a reversal announced Friday, President Donald Trump's administration said it will reinstate student visa registrations for thousands of international students enrolled in United States universities whose statuses were stripped in over minor infractions, according to Politico.

According to the report, the Justice Department discussed the switch in federal court after weeks of visa and student status terminations across the country. The mass terminations were increasingly met with lawsuits filed by students, including several in Minnesota, and federal judges granting temporary restraining orders on the cancellations.

The Associated Press reported that a lawyer for the government read a statement in federal court in Oakland that said ICE was manually restoring the student status for people whose records were terminated in recent weeks. A similar statement was read by a government attorney in a separate case in Washington on Friday, said lawyer Brian Green, who represents the plaintiff in that case. Green provided The AP with a copy of the statement that the government lawyer emailed to him.

It says: ''ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations. Until such a policy is issued, the SEVIS records for plaintiff(s) in this case (and other similarly situated plaintiffs) will remain Active or shall be re-activated if not currently active and ICE will not modify the record solely based on the NCIC finding that resulted in the recent SEVIS record termination."Green said that the government lawyer said it would apply to all students in the same situation, not just those who had filed lawsuits.

SEVIS is the Student and Exchange Visitor Information Systems database that tracks international students' compliance with their visa status. NCIC is the National Crime Information Center, which is maintained by the FBI. Many of the students whose records were terminated were told that their status was terminated as a result of a criminal records check or that their visa had been revoked.

Just this week, a federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to temporarily restore visas for five international graduates from Concordia University in St. Paul after the group filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota over their terminations. Four of the students referenced prior driving offenses in their lawsuit, including one who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated. One of the students said they've committed no criminal infractions

Two other judges issued separate orders requiring the Trump administration to reinstate student statuses for two international students, from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and the University of Minnesota, for 14 days after the orders.

International students who have been detained by federal immigration agents were also taking to the courts to fight their continued jailing. Doğukan Günaydın, a Turkish graduate student at the University of Minnesota, sued the U.S. shortly after officers arrested him outside his St. Paul apartment over a prior drunken driving offense.

An immigration judge granted him bond, a decision that was quickly appealed by DHS, resulting in Günaydin's continued jailing until his next hearing in early May.

Mohammed Hoque, a Minnesota State Mankato student from Bangladesh, filed a lawsuit alleging he's been unlawfully held in jail following his arrest on the way home from coding class. In the lawsuit, Hoque said he believes his arrest and detention stems from his vocal support for Palestinians.

Wire reports state the DOJ said Immigration and Customs Enforcement is creating a new policy for international students studying in the United States under F-1 visas and until the policy comes to fruition, no students will have their visa records canceled solely because of criminal history checks.