State Department revokes over 6,000 student visas

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Washington — The State Department says it has revoked much than 6,000 pupil visas for overstays and violations of the law. 

The immense bulk of those violations oregon alleged violations entailed assault, driving nether the influence, burglary, and "support for terrorism," according to a State Department official, though the State Department didn't accidental whether those were accusations, arrests, charges oregon convictions. 

Two-thirds of the precocious revoked visas were due to the fact that the students violated the law, the authoritative said. Fox News archetypal reported the pupil visa revocations. 

Those astir 6,000 students correspond a fraction of the 1.1 cardinal overseas students who studied astatine colleges and universities successful the U.S. successful the 2023-2024 world year, the astir precocious disposable data. 

The State Department authoritative said betwixt 200 and 300 of the visas pulled were implicit accusations that they engaged successful "support for terrorism" nether federal statute.

The Trump medication has been cracking down connected overseas students participating successful pro-Palestinian protests connected U.S. campuses, arsenic good arsenic universities that let specified protests. In 1 high-profile incident, Tufts University doctoral pupil Rümeysa Öztürk's visa was revoked aft she wrote an op-ed criticizing U.S. argumentation successful the Middle East, and past was taken into custody by ICE. Her visa was restored and she was released aft she spent six weeks successful ICE detention. 

The Trump medication has besides imposed stricter screening for pupil visa applications. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced successful April that planetary students, among different visa applicants, would person their societal media screened for things including antisemitic content. The State Department has besides required that pupil visa applicants marque their societal media profiles public. 

The State Department did not instantly respond to a petition for further accusation connected the revoked visas. 

Camilla Schick contributed to this report.