In recent weeks, several international students have submitted demands against the Trump administration after their visas were revoked, claiming a violation of due process.
Several international students who have revoked their visas in the last week have filed demands against the Trump administration, arguing that the Government denied due process when they suddenly removed their permission to be in the United States.
Federal government actions to terminate the legal status of students have left hundreds of academics at risk of detention and deportation. Its schools range from private universities such as Harvard and Stanford to large public institutes such as Maryland University and Ohio State University to some small universities of liberal arts.
In demands against the Department of National Security, students have argued that the Government lacked justification to cancel their visa or terminate their legal status.
Why the Government cancels the visas of international students?
The visas can be canceled for several reasons, but the conferences say that some students are bees about infractions as lower as traffic violations, including some lungs in the past. In some cases, students say it is not clear why they were attacked.
“The moment and uniformity of these endings leave a few doubts that DHS has adopted a national policy, whether written or not, or the massive termination of the state (legal) students,” they wrote the University of ACL or Michigan University and the Student State University.
In New Hampshire, a federal judge issued a reaction order last week in the case of a Dartmouth College College Student of China, Xiaotian Liu, who the government finished its status. The lawyers have presented similar challenges in the Federal Court in Georgia and California.
National Security officials did not respond to a message in search of comments.
In some cases of high profile, including the detention of the activist of the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, the administration of President Donald Trump has argued that he should afford to deport non-citizens in the participation in pro-Palestinian activism. But in the permanent majority of visa revocations, the conferences say that there are no indications that affected students have a role in protests.
“What is seeing that it happens with international students is really a much larger part of the Trump administration is contributing to immigrants from all different categories,” said Michelle Mittelstadt, director of Public Affairs of the Migration Policy.
How do student visas work?
Students from other countries must meet a series of requirements to obtain a student visa, usually an F-1. After obtaining admission to a school in the United States, students go through an application process and interview at an embassy or consulate of the United States abroad.
Students with Visa F-1 must demonstrate that they have sufficient financial support for their study course in the US.
The input visas are administered by the State Department. Once they are in the United States, the legal status of international students is supervised by the student and exchange visitors program under the National Security Department.
In recent weeks, the leaders of many universities learned that the legal residence of some international students had been fired when the university staff verified a database administered by National Security. In the past, university officials say, the legal states were generally updated after universities told the government that students no longer studied at school.
More like this
Posted on April 15, 2025