"Scared To Be Out": How Foreign Students Navigate US Visa Revocation Anxiety

"Scared To Be Out": How Foreign Students Navigate US Visa Revocation Anxiety

Foreign students living in the US constantly see agents in plain clothes out of the blue and taking students to detention centres, on social media and that is causing a lot of anxiety for them.

Anxiety at US colleges as foreign students are detained and visas revoked – Cameroon Intelligence Report

For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. Those taken into custody in a string of high-profile student detentions captured on video have not faced any criminal charges and instead appear to have been targeted for involvement in pro-Pal…

This article was published as part of a collaboration between Telemundo Chicago, NBC Chicago and DePaul University to amplify the work of journalism students. DePaul’s graduate student, Vishnu Vardhan Nali, filed a lawsuit against Kristi Noem, Todd Lyons and the Department of Homeland Security after the agency revoked his F-1 student visa on Tuesday, April 9. Nali, an international student from India, is in his final trimester studying business …

"Get out of intimidation": how foreign students navigate American visa cancel anxiety

According to school officials, university statements and correspondence reported by Associated Press, about 1,024 international students in American colleges and universities have canceled their visas or ended their legal status since the end of March. Foreign students living in the US constantly look at agents in blue plain cloth and take students to centers in ... Read more The post “Get out of intimidation”: how foreign students navigate Amer…

The measure mainly affects young people from India and China, and has already provoked a wave of lawsuits for violation of due process.