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"Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US
Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus activism.
Immigration attorneys’ contacted by
TOI affirmed this development and added a
few Indian students may also be at the receiving end of such emails – for
something as innocuous as sharing a social media post.
It is not just international students who physically participated in campus
activism but also those who shared or liked ‘anti-national’ posts that are the
target of these emails, said an immigration attorney.
This crackdown is based on social-media reviews being conducted by DOS (which
includes Consulate officials). Thus, even new student applications be it for an
F (academic study visa), M (vocational study visa) or J (exchange visa) will
also come under such social media scrutiny. Applicants will be denied the
opportunity to study in the US.
According to the latest Open Doors report, there are 1.1 million international
students studying in the US in 2023-24 of which 3.31 lakh are Indian students.
As reported by
Axios earlier, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, has launched
an AI-fuelled ‘Catch and Revoke’ effort to cancel the visas of foreign
nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups.
Axios further reports that more than 300 foreign students have had their
student visas revoked in the three weeks that ‘Catch and Revoke’ has been in
operation, there are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
