Government officials have confirmed that the Trump administration is giving visas back to hundreds of foreign students whose legal status was suddenly taken away, which caused a lot of worry among many who were afraid they would have to leave the country right away.

Elizabeth Kurlan, an attorney for the US Justice Department, told a federal court that immigration officials are now working on a new way to review and cancel visas for foreign students.

After more than 100 lawsuits were filed by students who were suddenly taken away from their legal right to study in US universities, the news was made.

A count from Inside Higher Ed says that about 1,800 students and 280 colleges have been affected.

A lot of the students who were affected seemed to have been in political events or have been charged with crimes like driving while impaired.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said before that people whose actions the government thinks are against US interests would lose their status.

A lot of people are scared and confused about the policy at hundreds of universities in the US. Some students have even decided to leave the country early rather than risk being detained or sent back to their home country.

On Friday, the Justice Department told the court that records would be returned in SEVIS, which keeps track of how well international students follow the rules of their visas.

On the other hand, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can still delete a SEVIS record for other reasons.

In this case, Kurlan told a federal court in California that “if a student fails to maintain his or her nonimmigrant status after the record is reactivated or engages in other unlawful activity that would render him or her removable from the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act,” the student would be sent back to Germany.

Lawyers for the students have said that the revocations violate their legal rights and that the fear of going to jail has kept them from studying.

NBC News reports that lawyers for students across the country said their clients’ records had been returned in the last few days.

Elora Mukherjee, head of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, says that students who lost their SEVIS records were open to immigration actions, which could include detention and deportation.

“What I’m hearing is that this is a reprieve for many students who have had their status reinstated in SEVIS,” Mukherjee said. “But this doesn’t mean this ordeal is over for the students who have had their records terminated.”