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.
