The immigration status of an international Ohio State graduate student has been restored.
Prasanna Oruganti filed a suit in federal court in April after the Trump administration revoked her status. U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley granted a temporary restraining order in the case on April 18.
The case was dismissed on April 30. A hearing had been scheduled for Thursday.
Oruganti is an international graduate student from India pursuing a PhD in agricultural engineering and worked as a teaching assistant at Ohio State.
Oruganti's lawyer Emily Brown had no comment other than to say her client's status had been restored. Brown said that to her knowledge, Oruganti's visa had not been revoked.
Christopher Yates of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Columbus had no comment.
Oruganti's status was revoked after a criminal records check showed a minor traffic violation for defective equipment in Missouri in 2020.
She obtained a visa and entered the U.S. in 2018. She was authorized until Dec. 2029 to complete her Ph.D. program at the university.
Court records said Oruganti received an email from Ohio State's Office of International Affairs on April 8 telling her that her status had been revoked.
Records said that Oruganti never heard from the U.S. State Department concerning why her status was canceled.
The federal government has restored the records of hundreds, and possibly thousands, of international students whose entries in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database the government had abruptly terminated.