Immigration and Customs Enforcement has indicated they could start terminating a person’s legal status because of visa revocation.
An internal memo to all Student and Exchange Visitor Program personnel, which falls under ICE, shows an expanded list of criteria for ICE to terminate foreign-born students’ legal status in the U.S., including a “U.S. Department of State Visa Revocation (Effective Immediately).” It was filed in court by the Department of Justice Monday night and dated April 26.
Previously, there were a variety of reasons for students to lose legal status, including if they stop attending school, lose work authorization or commit certain crimes. But typically students would have the right to due process before the legal status is terminated, attorneys say. Now, according to the memo, visa revocation itself is grounds for the termination of status…