Mohsen Mahdawi — who was detained by immigration agents last month during what he was told was his citizenship interview — can remain out of detention.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University and a U.S. green card holder, walked free from federal custody last Wednesday afternoon and was welcomed by a crowd of supporters outside a Vermont courthouse.