Friday, May 30, 2025 - The Trump administration in the US will start revoking visas of some Chinese students.
The State Department and Department of Homeland Security
will work 'aggressively to revoke visas for Chinese students, including those
with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical
fields,' Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a statement.
He also said the department will revise visa criteria to
enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications
from China and Hong Kong.
China has the second-highest number of international
students pursuing higher education in the United States in 2023/2024 with
277,398 students, according to the Institute of International Education.
'I want to make sure that the foreign students are people
who can love our country,' he said in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
It was gathered that the administration has expanded social
media vetting of foreign students and is seeking to ramp up deportations and
revoke student visas as part of its wide-ranging efforts to fulfil the
president's hardline immigration agenda.
On Tuesday, the administration ordered US embassies to halt
all student visa applications as part of the president's crackdown on America's
higher education business.
Rubio directed officials to stop scheduling
appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to
implement a social media vetting process
'Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of
required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add
any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment
capacity until further guidance is issued septel, which we anticipate in the
coming days,' the cable states.
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