ACLU Sues Trump Admin Over Revocation of International Student Visas

Several hundred foreign students throughout the country have had their visas or legal status revoked.

A pedestrian walks along a path on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Oct. 12, 2020. Steven Senne/AP Photo

Four American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) affiliates filed a lawsuit on April 18 asking a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students who have had their visas revoked.

Multiple ACLU affiliates and the law firm Shaheen & Gordon filed a federal class action lawsuit, representing more than 100 foreign students in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico who they say had their F-1 student immigration status “unlawfully and abruptly terminated with no specified reason as to why.”