US government expands grounds for canceling international students' legal status

Earlier DU thread: The US government has a new policy for terminating international students' legal status

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Source: Associated Press

US government expands grounds for canceling international students’ legal status

By MORIAH BALINGIT
Updated 5:27 PM EDT, April 30, 2025

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As the court challenges mounted, federal officials said Friday that the government would restore international students’ legal status while it developed a framework to guide future action. The new policy emerged in court a few days later.

The new guidance allows for revoking students’ status if their names appear in a criminal or fingerprint database in a way that was not permitted in the past, said Charles Kuck, an Atlanta-based immigration attorney who has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 133 people in the U.S. on student visas who lost their legal status.

“Basically, they’re trying to cover what they already did bad by making the bad thing that they did now legal for them to do,” Kuck said.

Many of the students who had visas revoked or lost their legal status said they had only minor infractions on their records, including traffic violations. Some did not know why they were targeted at all.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/international-student-visa-f1-sevis-status-716ce8e67e2c3093eba4092e57ba1612