{"id":23381,"date":"2025-04-08T23:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=23381"},"modified":"2025-04-08T23:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:41:46","slug":"us-revokes-more-than-500-foreign-student-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=23381","title":{"rendered":"US revokes more than 500 foreign student visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=391209ea-5400-4afd-91af-ecc5526351a8&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>More than 500 foreign students have had their US visas revoked in recent weeks, as Donald Trump\u2019s administration doubles down on its crackdown on universities. <\/p>\n<p>Nafsa, a network of universities and individuals engaged in international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/education\" data-trackable=\"link\">education<\/a> and exchanges, told the Financial Times on Tuesday it had identified 500 visa revocations by compiling reports from higher education institutions across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/us-society\" data-trackable=\"link\">US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is uncharted territory on so many levels,\u201d Fanta Aw, chief executive of Nafsa. \u201cIt\u2019s at an unprecedented level and it\u2019s quite concerning because there is a lack of clarity which is creating anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State are implementing a wave of actions against university students across the country. Institutions are often unaware that their students have been targeted so cannot easily track their cases or offer support. <\/p>\n<p>The state department\u2019s visa revocations require students to leave the US and reapply for visas after fresh scrutiny. Separately, the homeland security department has triggered \u201cstatus termination\u201d, Aw said. In both cases, she added, the processes for appeal were unclear. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be a tsunami of legal cases coming,\u201d she warned. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports have arisen of foreign students and university employees being taken to detention centres and subsequently facing deportation. <\/p>\n<p>A number of universities have issued warnings to students and faculty against travelling abroad for fear of arbitrary questioning or detention on returning to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Aw said reports of visa revocations had spiralled from students at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fab329d4-485a-48c6-b7c8-cb57944c6a87\" data-trackable=\"link\">elite universities<\/a> \u2014 including Stanford, Harvard and Columbia \u2014 to a far wider range of higher education institutions across the country. They targeted many different nationalities for a variety of reasons, including for traffic violations. <\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2eedfdc9-c8c8-4223-b17d-ca2f3e5e4e2d\" data-trackable=\"link\">Trump\u2019s election<\/a>, a growing number of US-based faculty have sought jobs elsewhere, and increasing numbers of high school and college students are applying to universities abroad. <\/p>\n<p>The Central European University in Vienna on Tuesday said US applicants for its programmes in the upcoming academic year had jumped one-quarter, while the University of Toronto reported a \u201cmeaningful\u201d rise compared to past years. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 16 associations of US universities called for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aau.edu\/key-issues\/aau-associations-send-letter-dhsstate-regarding-actions-around-international-students\" data-trackable=\"link\">briefing<\/a> from the homeland security and state departments, after uncoordinated orders from the authorities requested students to \u201cself-deport\u201d. <\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image o-teaser--opinion js-teaser\" data-id=\"4310f0d8-7747-48b8-8835-7ad0c6796a26\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4310f0d8-7747-48b8-8835-7ad0c6796a26\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" data-trackable-context-story-link=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2493\/1402\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The group said the orders contained \u201cno additional information about how to appeal this decision or verification to ensure that mistakes are not being made in identifying these individuals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The association warned of the implications for the country given the 1mn international students attending US colleges and universities, who contributed an estimated $43.8bn to the economy, created 375,000 domestic jobs and contributed \u201cto institutions\u2019 intellectual vibrancy and the global literacy of domestic students\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The homeland security department did not reply to a request to comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/391209ea-5400-4afd-91af-ecc5526351a8\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}