Dr. Rasha Alawieh studied and worked on kidney transplant cases in the United States, including in Rhode Island, under the legal protection of a H-1B work visa. That was, until she was deported to her native Lebanon on Friday.

A federal judge canceled a Monday morning hearing for a doctor who was deported to Lebanon after demanding to know whether U.S. Customs and Border Protection had "wilfully" disobeyed his order to keep her in the country amid a challenge to her deportation.

The advisory comes as Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant doctor at Brown Medicine, was prevented from re-entering the country after a trip to Lebanon. Brown’s spring break begins March 22.