An AI doctoral candidate in California says they had their student visa revoked

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April 21, 2025, 3:54 PM

• •An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record terminated, putting their immigration status at risk.
• •Over the past few months, more than a thousand international students in the U.S. have had their visa statuses challenged by the State Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
• •Yisong Yue, a machine learning professor at Caltech, told TechCrunch the U.S. government’s hardline stance on student visas is “harming the talent pipeline.”

An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record terminated, putting their immigration status at risk. The student said they had no criminal record and had been studying in the U.S. for nearly a decade. Over the past few months, more than a thousand international students in the U.S. have had their visa statuses challenged by the State Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of an aggressive crackdown orchestrated by the Trump administration.

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