California, Pennsylvania Students Sue Over Revoked F-1 Visas (2)

April 7, 2025, 12:50 PM UTCUpdated: April 7, 2025, 10:04 PM UTC

A southern California college student seeks to reverse the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of its program that tracks their status as non-immigrant, full-time international student F-1 visa holders.

DHS’s decision to end the Student and Exchange Visitor Program effectively strips program participants of their ability to remain as students in the United States, says the unidentified “Student Doe #1" plaintiff. The lawsuit, filed April 5 in the US District Court for the Central District of California, names as defendants DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons.

The F-1 visa revocations were designed to ...

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