Colleges around the US say some international students' visas are being revoked

[riversedge]

Source: ap



By ANNIE MA Updated 4:49 PM CDT, April 7, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Colleges around the country are reporting some of their international students’ visas are being revoked unexpectedly, expressing alarm over what appears to be a new level of government scrutiny.

Visas can be canceled for a number of reasons, but college leaders say the government has been quietly terminating students’ legal residency status with little notice to students or schools. That marks a shift from past practice and leaves students vulnerable to detention and deportation.

The list of colleges that have discovered students have had their legal status terminated includes Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, UCLA and Ohio State University.

The Trump administration has targeted students who had been involved with pro-Palestinian activism or speech, with a few high-profile detentions of students including Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was a leader of protests at Columbia University. ...........


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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Does that mean if you are an international student presently attending

college with no problems, and your Visa is revoked, that means:

1) You are kicked out of college, and
2) ICE can immediately arrest you on campus for being in the United States illegally?

[mwooldri]

4. Yes. NT

[sop]

2. Most of these targeted pro-Palestinian activist students were protesting Biden and Harris during the campaign,

many saying they would rather vote for Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes these kids helped Trump get elected.

Why is he going after them now?

[Magoo48]

5. Because his nasty little racist hands must go where his purely racist followers want them to go.

No matter what else he does, the racists will hang in there to the bitter end on their hatred alone.

[GreenWave]

6. But Jewish students who protested Gaza destruction was not widely covered in the media, but I have read about it.

Trump is placating yahoo. News is censoring for yahoo.

And now no pressure on Trump to make the destruction stop.

[PhylliPretzel]

13. Foreign students

Cannot vote in our elections!

[Irish_Dem]

14. They helped Trump by making Joe Biden look bad.

[Historic NY]

10. Well they bettter get their asses in gear or they migth be on the next flight to South America

on the chain gang express

[hurple]

7. I can personally vouch that this is happening

I have lost 2 interns because of it.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Ohio State reported 5 revoked visas yesterday.

[bdamomma]

9. Add

RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) and Brown University to that list.

There will be more protests, and this should not be happening.

Who's next????

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Social media

I don't think the government was really tracking protesters so much as AI was invading people's social media accounts and marking them as a target.

So don't make the mistake that these were "violent" activists causing disruption. Some may be, but I am willing to bet that most of them are just of the "wrong" background and have posted anti Trump or pro Palestine content on their social media.

Even if they did attend some protests, it is wrong to target them for that, we are a nation that protects protest, even for visitors.

[twodogsbarking]

12. Local to me

https://www.wtaj.com/news/local-news/penn-state-responds-after-international-students-visas-revoked/