diff --git a/app/controllers/providers/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb b/app/controllers/providers/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb
index 322d29fbc..b7811dd3d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/providers/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/providers/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb
@@ -16,14 +16,6 @@ def saml
         provider = Provider.create! email: info_hash_email, first_office_code: info_hash_office_code
       end
 
-      # reset the session on login, otherwise the session expires after 14 days
-      # and logouts crash because there is no session data (SAML_UID) to logout with
-      # This may need to change if we want to preserve check data over a login
-      # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4812813/rails-login-reset-session
-      #
-      # Some docs suggest that devise maybe doing this behind the scenes, so
-      # this might be an investigation if changing this doesn't work.
-      reset_session
       # Portal has checked that we have the correct role, so we can just sign in
       sign_in_and_redirect provider, event: :authentication
     end