Washington – At first, the Bar Association for Immigration Atornists began to interrogate a few students a day. They were foreigners studying in the US and they discovered in early April that their legal position was canceled with little notice. According to their knowledge, none of the students committed an exile.
In recent days, the calls have begun to flood. Hundreds of students say they have lost legal status, seeking advice on what to do next.
“We thought it was going to be something unusual,” Boston -based immigration Attorney Matthew Maino says, who is getting about six calls from terrified international students a day. “But now it looks like it’s getting pretty fast and fierce.”
The federal government’s efforts and opportunities have shocked the shocking colleges across the country to cancel the legal position of international students. From prestigious private universities to large public research institutes and small liberal industrial colleges, they discovered the end of one of their students in several corners of higher education.
According to an Associated Press Review in the university statements and correspondence with school officials, more than 90 colleges and universities have withdrawn their visas or finished their legal position. Advocacy groups that collect reports from colleges say several hundred more students can be caught in this crackdown.
Last year, about 1.5 million international students were in the United States-the source of the revenue needed for the tuition-driven colleges. International students are not eligible for federal financial support and are often their ability to provide tuition whether they will be admitted to American schools. Often, they pay the full price.
Many students who are losing their legal status are from India and China, which are more than half of the international students in American colleges together. However, these finishes were not limited to any part of the world, lawyers said.
Four students of two universities in Michigan are being sued by Trump administration officials after their F -1 student status last week ended. Their Attorney, Ramis Wadood, with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the students never got any clear reason.
“We don’t know, and this is the frightening part,” he said.
Wadood said the students were notified about the completion of their universities through email, which came as a push, said Wadood. The reason given is “Criminal record check and/or their visa was canceled,” said Wadood, but none of them were accused or convicted of the crime. Some had a speed or parking ticket for someone, but not one was not, he said. Wadood said only one student knew that their entrance visa was canceled.
Students have filed similar cases in several other states, arguing that their proper process was denied.
In New Hampshire, a federal judge last week granted a temporary control order to restore PhD status. Ziaotian Liu’s Dartmouth College student, when he challenged his visa withdrawal.
In many colleges, officials learned that the legal immigration status of some international students was finished while examining a database conducted by the Homeland Security Department. In the past, college officials say that after the government has informed the government, legal status was usually updated by students are no longer studying in school.
Fanta Ao, CEO of NafSA, an Association of International Academics, came under the control of immigration and tariffs after 9/11 international students’ enrollment and movement track. He said that the recent events were afraid of how fast the students could be in the wrong side of the students.
“You don’t need more than a small number to create fear,” said AW. “There is no precision of what causes the reasons and how far it is.”
Its group says that about 1,300 students have lost visas or their status has been completed on the basis of the report of colleges.
The Homeland Security Department and the State Department department did not respond to messages asking comments.
A notice was sent to the immigration court on the specified date in the removal process, but lawyers say that the affected students did not receive any notice, leaving them uncertain about taking the next steps.
Some schools have asked students to leave the country to avoid the risk of being detained or deported. However, some students have applied for the completion and they are in the United States while processing.
Still others caught in legal organs are not students at all. They were “AL Chhostic Practical Training”, one year-time or up to three for science and technology graduates from postgraduate in the United States — which allowed employment in the United States after completing the academic degree. During that period, a graduation works in their field and if they want to continue working in the US, they wait for their H -1B or other employment visa
About 242,000 foreigners in the United States are employed through this “AL Chhikik Practical Training”. Acquiring about 500,000 undergraduate degrees and 342,000 graduate students.
Georgia Tech is one of the students filed by the case. Graduate on May 5 with a job offer to join the faculty. His Attorney Charles Kak said that the student was probably targeted to finish due to the unpaid traffic penalties since the student borrowed his car to a friend. In the end the violation was rejected.
In the federal case, the student representative of the student students said, “We have a case after the exact cases, where there is no underlying crime.” He said that his law firm had heard from hundreds of students.
“These kids who now understand under the Trump administration that their position is fragile,” he said. “They have hunted very weak populations thise these kids aren’t hiding. They are in school.”
Some international students are adapting their daily routine.
A student from North Carolina University in North Carolina, a PhD, said that he had begun to take his passport and immigration papers on the advice of the university’s International Student Office. The student, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being targeted by the authorities, said that he was also suffering from this end for students like him without a criminal record.
“This is the most frightening part because you don’t know if you are going to be the next person,” he said. ___
Seminra reported from Rally, NC and reported from Keller Albooquerk, NM
___
Associated Press education coverage receives financial assistance from multiple private basis. AP is the sole responsible for all content. APRR.A.R.R. -Find the AP’s values to work with a list of supporters and money coverage fields.
Leave a Reply