According to a group of American lawyers, the donald trump administration has cancelled the visas of a number of foreign students, half of them are from India.
According to the American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA), 327 students had their visas canceled, with 50% of them coming from India. The immigration lawyers' organization reportedly gathered 327 reports of visa revocations and terminations from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) from lawyers, students, and university staff, according to a PTI report.
According to these figures, 14 percent of the students were from China, and 50 percent were from India. South Korea, Nepal, and bangladesh are among the other noteworthy nations included in this statistics, according to the AILA statement, which PTI cited.
"Based on these reports, it is clear that transparency, oversight, and accountability are needed to prevent further arbitrary visa revocations and SEVIS record terminations. Finally, there should be a way for students to appeal SEVIS terminations that are inaccurate without facing a gap in their employment or requiring the university to be involved, given the sheer numbers of those impacted," the statement added.
International students ask US judges to block immigration officials
International students have petitioned US courts to prevent deportation after the trump administration started taking away thousands of student visa holders' ability to stay in the country, according to a Reuters report.
As part of Trump's widespread immigration crackdown, judges in Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, wisconsin, and Washington, D.C., issued emergency orders on tuesday that prevented immigration officials from taking any action against students after the government revoked their legal justification for being in the country.
Among them is indian undergraduate krish Isserdasani, age 21 at the university of Wisconsin-Madison. He admitted to being arrested for disorderly conduct in november following a verbal altercation while making his way home from a club.
Charges against Isserdasani were not brought by the local district attorney. However, the report also stated that on april 4, his institution notified him that his database record had been canceled. On tuesday, a wisconsin federal judge declared that the government's action was probably illegal.
According to the American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA), 327 students had their visas canceled, with 50% of them coming from India. The immigration lawyers' organization reportedly gathered 327 reports of visa revocations and terminations from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) from lawyers, students, and university staff, according to a PTI report.
According to these figures, 14 percent of the students were from China, and 50 percent were from India. South Korea, Nepal, and bangladesh are among the other noteworthy nations included in this statistics, according to the AILA statement, which PTI cited.
"Based on these reports, it is clear that transparency, oversight, and accountability are needed to prevent further arbitrary visa revocations and SEVIS record terminations. Finally, there should be a way for students to appeal SEVIS terminations that are inaccurate without facing a gap in their employment or requiring the university to be involved, given the sheer numbers of those impacted," the statement added.
International students ask US judges to block immigration officials
International students have petitioned US courts to prevent deportation after the trump administration started taking away thousands of student visa holders' ability to stay in the country, according to a Reuters report.
As part of Trump's widespread immigration crackdown, judges in Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, wisconsin, and Washington, D.C., issued emergency orders on tuesday that prevented immigration officials from taking any action against students after the government revoked their legal justification for being in the country.
Among them is indian undergraduate krish Isserdasani, age 21 at the university of Wisconsin-Madison. He admitted to being arrested for disorderly conduct in november following a verbal altercation while making his way home from a club.
Charges against Isserdasani were not brought by the local district attorney. However, the report also stated that on april 4, his institution notified him that his database record had been canceled. On tuesday, a wisconsin federal judge declared that the government's action was probably illegal.
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