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Federal Rule Limits Foreign Student Visas to Four Years, Impacting California Campuses
📰 Original title: New rule caps foreign student visas at four years, jolting California campuses
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Canada’s international student program lacks crucial controls: audit
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Sweden Moves to Curb Exploitation of Study Residence Permits
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Well done #Trump 🤦🏼♀️
#Universities in #China Surge in Global Rankings as #US #Schools Slip
#Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring #academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.
#education #law #immigration #StudentVisas #WorkVisas #GovernmentInterference #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #censorship #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Well done #Trump 🤦🏼♀️
#Universities in #China Surge in Global Rankings as #US #Schools Slip
#Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring #academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.
#education #law #immigration #StudentVisas #WorkVisas #GovernmentInterference #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #censorship #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
'We will deport these thugs': Rubio's State Department revokes 100,000+ visas in 2025, putting Biden's numbers to shame
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The number of newly enrolled #InternationalStudents in US #colleges dropped 17% this fall after the #Trump admin made it more challenging to obtain #StudentVisas [& jailed many legally here], data released Monday by the Institute of #International #Education shows.
The figures, based on a survey of >825 colleges & #universities, provide one of the clearest views of the potential impact of measures Trump’s admin has taken that make it more difficult for foreign students to come to the US. -
The number of newly enrolled #InternationalStudents in US #colleges dropped 17% this fall after the #Trump admin made it more challenging to obtain #StudentVisas [& jailed many legally here], data released Monday by the Institute of #International #Education shows.
The figures, based on a survey of >825 colleges & #universities, provide one of the clearest views of the potential impact of measures Trump’s admin has taken that make it more difficult for foreign students to come to the US. -
Trump Administration Seeks Strict Time Limits on Visas for Physicians, Academics
This week, the Trump administration proposed a new rule to cap the amount of time that foreign-born reporters, academics, students, physicians, and others can stay in the United States. Comments on the proposed rule must be received on or before September 29, 2025. The proposed rule caps international students and exchange visitors’ visas at four years. Currently…
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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Colleges and universities experiencing significant drop in international student enrollment. “Universities all over the country are experiencing…drops. Arizona State University reported a fall semester decline for the first time since 2020. Declines have been announced at universities in Texas, Missouri and Illinois. The state of Massachusetts is expecting about 10,000 fewer new international students this year.
‘One would describe the situation with international students to be very much in flux with tremendous levels of uncertainty,’ says Fanta Aw, who leads the Association of International Educators, or NAFSA.” #academia #AcademicChatter #universities #college #HigherEd #Students #StudentVisas #TrumpAdministration -
Colleges and universities experiencing significant drop in international student enrollment. “Universities all over the country are experiencing…drops. Arizona State University reported a fall semester decline for the first time since 2020. Declines have been announced at universities in Texas, Missouri and Illinois. The state of Massachusetts is expecting about 10,000 fewer new international students this year.
‘One would describe the situation with international students to be very much in flux with tremendous levels of uncertainty,’ says Fanta Aw, who leads the Association of International Educators, or NAFSA.” #academia #AcademicChatter #universities #college #HigherEd #Students #StudentVisas #TrumpAdministration -
MAGA aren't happy, but then they're never happy so why do some people obsess over placating them over everyone else? Is it cowardice, is it because they are MAGA but too chicken to admit it? Fuck them all anyway...
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-meltdown-with-trump-chinese-student-visas
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MAGA aren't happy, but then they're never happy so why do some people obsess over placating them over everyone else? Is it cowardice, is it because they are MAGA but too chicken to admit it? Fuck them all anyway...
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-meltdown-with-trump-chinese-student-visas
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The Trump administration is halting student visa interviews and ramping up social media vetting, leaving many international students’ futures in limbo 🇺🇸🛑📚. Critics warn this policy shift could reshape global education. Read more: https://theintercept.com/2025/08/23/trump-international-students-visa-denial-university/ #StudentVisas #Immigration #TrumpPolicy #newz
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The Trump administration is halting student visa interviews and ramping up social media vetting, leaving many international students’ futures in limbo 🇺🇸🛑📚. Critics warn this policy shift could reshape global education. Read more: https://theintercept.com/2025/08/23/trump-international-students-visa-denial-university/ #StudentVisas #Immigration #TrumpPolicy #newz
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📢 The US State Department has quietly rolled out a controversial new requirement for international students. 📱 Applicants for F, J, and M visas are now being told to make their social media profiles publicly viewable during the visa process. 🤬
🔍 The goal appears to be enhanced vetting, but it raises serious concerns:
🔓 Loss of privacy for global students
🌍 Disproportionate surveillance based on nationality
📉 Chilling effects on speech and expression💬 International education depends on trust and openness. This policy could send the opposite message.
Is this smart security or a step too far?
#Privacy #InternationalStudents #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #StudentVisas
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/us_student_visa_applicants_social_media_public/ -
📢 The US State Department has quietly rolled out a controversial new requirement for international students. 📱 Applicants for F, J, and M visas are now being told to make their social media profiles publicly viewable during the visa process. 🤬
🔍 The goal appears to be enhanced vetting, but it raises serious concerns:
🔓 Loss of privacy for global students
🌍 Disproportionate surveillance based on nationality
📉 Chilling effects on speech and expression💬 International education depends on trust and openness. This policy could send the opposite message.
Is this smart security or a step too far?
#Privacy #InternationalStudents #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #StudentVisas
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/us_student_visa_applicants_social_media_public/ -
…Citing news media reports, #Harvard’s amended complaint said that the #Trump admin had convened a group of senior officials to brainstorm additional ways to punish Harvard, even after Judge Burroughs issued an order on May 23 banning #DHS’s initial plan.
#vendetta #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #law #AcademicFreedom #immigration #InternationalStudents #StudentVisas #AbuseOfPower
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…Citing news media reports, #Harvard’s amended complaint said that the #Trump admin had convened a group of senior officials to brainstorm additional ways to punish Harvard, even after Judge Burroughs issued an order on May 23 banning #DHS’s initial plan.
#vendetta #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #law #AcademicFreedom #immigration #InternationalStudents #StudentVisas #AbuseOfPower
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…The latest filing, an amended complaint, followed a string of court actions by the #university against the #Trump admin, part of a battle that began in April, when Harvard refused to comply with a list of federal demands.
The government asked, among other things, for Harvard to bar students *hostile* to *American values* & to allow an audit of #faculty & #students to measure “viewpoint diversity” at the school.
#law #AcademicFreedom #immigration #StudentVisas #AbuseOfPower
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…The latest filing, an amended complaint, followed a string of court actions by the #university against the #Trump admin, part of a battle that began in April, when Harvard refused to comply with a list of federal demands.
The government asked, among other things, for Harvard to bar students *hostile* to *American values* & to allow an audit of #faculty & #students to measure “viewpoint diversity” at the school.
#law #AcademicFreedom #immigration #StudentVisas #AbuseOfPower
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The proclamation blocked Thurs was issued just the day before. It was the 3rd time in a month that the #Trump admin has tried to use its power to ban #InternationalStudents at #Harvard in what the #university has said is a violation of its #FirstAmendment rights. But it was the 1st time Trump relied on #ExecutivePower rather than agency rules & actions, a sign of how personal the effort to inflict distress on the university has become for him.
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The proclamation blocked Thurs was issued just the day before. It was the 3rd time in a month that the #Trump admin has tried to use its power to ban #InternationalStudents at #Harvard in what the #university has said is a violation of its #FirstAmendment rights. But it was the 1st time Trump relied on #ExecutivePower rather than agency rules & actions, a sign of how personal the effort to inflict distress on the university has become for him.
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The orders from Judge Burroughs were victories, if perhaps temporary ones, in #Harvard’s battle w/ #Trump, for whom the #university has become a focal point in his effort to make #HigherEducation conform to his *political agenda* [will].
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.285083/gov.uscourts.mad.285083.59.0_1.pdf
#law #AcademicFreedom #immigration #InternationalStudents #StudentVisas #AbuseOfPower
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The orders from Judge Burroughs were victories, if perhaps temporary ones, in #Harvard’s battle w/ #Trump, for whom the #university has become a focal point in his effort to make #HigherEducation conform to his *political agenda* [will].
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.285083/gov.uscourts.mad.285083.59.0_1.pdf
#law #AcademicFreedom #immigration #InternationalStudents #StudentVisas #AbuseOfPower
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A federal judge late Thurs temporarily blocked #Trump’s latest effort to prevent #Harvard from enrolling #InternationalStudents, stalling his first bid to directly [ab]use the power of the presidency against the #university.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the US Dist Court in Massachusetts also extended for about 2wks her previous order from May that prevented Trump from blocking Harvard from issuing certain types of #StudentVisas.
#law #AcademicFreedom #immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/harvard-response-trump-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=CDBDA94C-1AFA-4E1F-AA60-3572657109F6 -
A federal judge late Thurs temporarily blocked #Trump’s latest effort to prevent #Harvard from enrolling #InternationalStudents, stalling his first bid to directly [ab]use the power of the presidency against the #university.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the US Dist Court in Massachusetts also extended for about 2wks her previous order from May that prevented Trump from blocking Harvard from issuing certain types of #StudentVisas.
#law #AcademicFreedom #immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/harvard-response-trump-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=CDBDA94C-1AFA-4E1F-AA60-3572657109F6 -
This week's Skinny timed out with the end of the month, and a season change on my website; needless to say I'm a little exhausted. I'm fond of this one tho, there's several pieces I wrote this week that when cleaned up clearly could have been full essays. Not that I had the time to source them, but some of this was pretty good for a social media blog for sure.
This week we're talking about how the budget bill fuels the fascist anti-trans pogrom, the multiple purposes of the surveillance panopticon, ICE agents setting traps for migrants at courthouses nationwide, and the banality of the open white nationalism the regime engages in daily. Oh, and Senate Democrats could stop the GOP homicidal class war Billionaire Bill in its tracks; do they want to? Check out this week's Skinny for more:
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/31/the-skinny-banality-of-evil-in-trumps-america/2/
The Skinny: Banality of Evil in Trump’s America
"Which brings us to the vague wording, and potentially broad applications of this ideological screening. As we’ve learned to watch for from studying the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, and the Trump administration’s clear adherence to its doctrines, there is nothing in any of the administration’s orders targeting dissidents that essentializes being pro-Palestine, or anti-genocide. The regime has already asserted the power to define anything as terrorism, or material support, and even casual criticism as being a threat to US national security, so why would they stop at anti-genocide protestors or foreign students at all for that matter? A vast digital panopticon relying on “AI-processing” technology to sort through every aspect of a targeted individual or group’s lives can and almost certainly will be repurposed to identify and surveil the regime’s political and ideological opposition in broader American society until such a time as a ghoul like Marco Rubio, or Pam Bondi finds a way to declare that their constitutional rights too, are null and void."
#Fascism #USPol #ReconciliationBill #TransRights #Trump #GOP #ICE #MarcoRubio #StudentVisas #WhiteNationalism #TheSkinny #Newsletter
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Even as the Trump regime appears poised to ultimately lose a number of cases revolving around instant visa revocations for anti-genocide foreign student protestors, Downmarket Mussolini's purse dog at State, Marco Rubio, is looking to expand the tactic to target Chinese foreign students; and the ominous context of this move suggests to me that we might be in for a bumpy ride if this really is going in the direction I think it's headed.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/china-us-revoke-visas-international-students
'This Will Hurt Us As Much As It Hurts Them': Trump Admin Says It Will Revoke Visas of Chinese Students
"The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it is working with the Department of Homeland Security to "aggressively revoke" visas that have been issued to Chinese students—sparking a rebuke from China's government and anxiety among Chinese students.
The Trump administration is endeavoring to revoke visas for students that hail from China, "including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields," according to a short statement from the State Department. "We will also revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong."
Even taken at face value, this policy shift is authoritarian, racist, and alarming. The power Rubio is attempting to exert here is about protecting American national security in the event of a crisis on par with an impeding war; it's not intended as a method for the Trump regime to get back at China for criticism over Downmarket Mussolini's unhinged trade policies. Even under the most benign interpretation of Rubio's actions here, this is still Trump repurposing the apparatus of the American state to prosecute his personal grievances.
Of course, we as observers who just watched the Pork Reich use this exact same process to justify kidnapping and attempting to deport foreign student anti-genocide protestors as part of a larger authoritarian plot to use "fighting antisemitism" as a justification for installing a new McCarthyism, have no reason to assume the most benign scenario here. Are we to expect the US government to begin kidnapping Chinese students and shipping them to ICE private detention hellholes now? If that happens, how do you figure the Chinese government is going to feel about it? Regardless of what you think about Palestine and Hamas, they don't have nukes and international economic power; China does. Does anyone know what the phrase "critical fields," means in this context and does it bother you that it's so vague? Are we worried about Chinese students stealing our crappier AI technology or some bullshit? Does it seem rational to anyone who isn't a Sinophobe nazi to kick a hornet's nest like this one, because Trump had some feel bads about social media posts from Chinese officials?
While I wish I could stop there, in a Project Esther world every bit of repressive policy based on foreign relations and winger anticommunism is a possible vector for ideological policing and the elimination of what the nazis classify broadly as "the radical American left" - a group that includes Democrat politicians and apparently, the hosts of The View. The sleight of hand the regime is employing to conflate anti-Zinonism and opposition to a genocide with anti-Americanism and material support for our "enemies," can be just as easily applied to China and a very broad, Bircher definition of "communism." In fact, I'd argue decades of American anticommunist rhetoric would make that application even easier and more effective in the public discourse. If you take a look at what the folks behind the 1776 Commission, and Project 2025 define as "communism" there's an unreasonable argument that anyone advocating for racial, gender, or social equality is a communist. Ditto for folks advocating for regulations on capitalism, labor rights, or even the separation of church and state; the possibilities are pretty endless given what these folks call "communism." From there it's only a short little hop to "China is communism, therefore communism is China" and you've got a whole new application of Project Esther techniques to work with in your quest to crush all political opposition to the Trump regime.
Are these nazis really prepared to repurpose a global trade struggle with China to install a martial law-style police state? Who knows; but if you listen to guys like Stephen Miller talk for about five minutes, you'll realize why I think assuming they *don't* intend to go the full nine yards, is a very bad idea indeed.
#Fascism #Trump #China #anticommunism #ProjectEsther #StudentVisas #MarcoRubio #StateDepartment #DHS #ICE #TradeWar #PoliceState #McCarthyism #ForeignPolicy #Imperialism #USPol
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Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said in the cable that the dept plans to issue updated guidance on #socialmedia vetting of #student & #exchange visitor applicants after a review is completed & advised consular sections to halt the scheduling of such #visa appointments.
The move comes as the #Trump admin has sought to ramp up #deportations & revoke #StudentVisas as part of its wide-ranging efforts to fulfill his hardline #immigration agenda.
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Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said in the cable that the dept plans to issue updated guidance on #socialmedia vetting of #student & #exchange visitor applicants after a review is completed & advised consular sections to halt the scheduling of such #visa appointments.
The move comes as the #Trump admin has sought to ramp up #deportations & revoke #StudentVisas as part of its wide-ranging efforts to fulfill his hardline #immigration agenda.
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US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting
#HackerNews #USVisaPolicy #SocialMediaVetting #StudentVisas #ImmigrationNews #VisaInterviews
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US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting
#HackerNews #USVisaPolicy #SocialMediaVetting #StudentVisas #ImmigrationNews #VisaInterviews
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A judge saved ~6,800 Harvard international students from potential deportation after the Trump admin tried to bar them. Harvard sued, calling it a retaliatory First Amendment breach. Students safe for now. #HigherEd #StudentVisas #AcademicFreedom
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DHS Strips Harvard’s Foreign Student Program Just As Judge Blocks Separate Mass Student Expulsion Scheme
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DHS Strips Harvard’s Foreign Student Program Just As Judge Blocks Separate Mass Student Expulsion Scheme
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I bet White Afrikaans get through though....
#IslandOfStrangers #Xenophobia #StudentVisas #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Nigeria #SriLanka #Pakistan
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I bet White Afrikaans get through though....
#IslandOfStrangers #Xenophobia #StudentVisas #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Nigeria #SriLanka #Pakistan
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Here is Reuters run down of today’s hearing for #RumeysaOzturk.
#Tufts student detained by #US #immigration authorities must be released, judge rules
#law #Trump #StudentVisas #Universities #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StateSponsoredAbduction
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Here is Reuters run down of today’s hearing for #RumeysaOzturk.
#Tufts student detained by #US #immigration authorities must be released, judge rules
#law #Trump #StudentVisas #Universities #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StateSponsoredAbduction
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If you want to read Anna Bower’s notes from the entire proceeding in #RumeysaOzturk’s case, here’s the thread unrolled:
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/post/3loqnq26d7c2a
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If you want to read Anna Bower’s notes from the entire proceeding in #RumeysaOzturk’s case, here’s the thread unrolled:
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/post/3loqnq26d7c2a
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The judge in #RumeysaOzturk’s case noted that the govt presented no evidence other than #Ozturk’s op-ed raising a very significant & substantial claim that 1st Amendment protected speech formed the basis for her detention.
Which suggests the reason she was detained was punishment for her opinion.
#immigration #law #Trump #StudentVisas #Universities #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress -
#RumeysaOzturk’s hearing is coming to a close. Importantly, just now the judge stated that the court finds #Ozturk meets all 3 requirements for granting #bail.
1) Substantial claims, (2) extraordinary
circumstances, (3) necessary to make #habeas effective
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#RumeysaOzturk’s hearing is coming to a close. Importantly, just now the judge stated that the court finds #Ozturk meets all 3 requirements for granting #bail.
1) Substantial claims, (2) extraordinary
circumstances, (3) necessary to make #habeas effective
#immigration #law #Trump #StudentVisas #Universities #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress -
#RumeysaOzturk’s hearing is still going. I’ll post an unrolled thread from Anna Bower of Lawfare when it concludes.
#immigration #law #Trump #StudentVisas #Universities #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress
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»#US to #revoke #studentvisas over ‘pro-Hamas’ #socialmedia posts flagged by #AI: State department launches AI-assisted reviews of accounts to look for what it perceives as Hamas supporters.« https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/foreign-student-visas-pro-palestinian-ai?eicker.news #tech #media
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»#US to #revoke #studentvisas over ‘pro-Hamas’ #socialmedia posts flagged by #AI: State department launches AI-assisted reviews of accounts to look for what it perceives as Hamas supporters.« https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/foreign-student-visas-pro-palestinian-ai?eicker.news #tech #media