Fifteen Iranian students and researchers sued the Trump administration completely Student visa stopped Interviews while determining whether all social media accounts will be examined for visa providers.
The lawsuit, filed against Foreign Minister Marco Rubio in the Federal Virginia Court, claims that stopping the visa interviews violates the Administrative Procedures Law, a law prohibiting the development of volatile rules. The complaint is currently sealed.
In an email, Cortis Morrison and Hamdi Masry, attorneys of students, indicated, Detecting their social media handles Since May 2019. Masri said that applicants from some Muslim majority countries, including Iran, are already undergoing “wide social media examination”, adding that Trump seems to want to “ensure students enter his political values.”
Students and researchers who filed the lawsuit against Rubio were accepted to universities throughout the country – including Yale, Ohio, and the University of South Florida – for graduate studies programs in computer science, engineering, finance and other specialties. According to their lawyers, each student has already attended visa interviews, but all their requests “await the examination of national security.” Some students have been interviewed more than a year ago.
Stopping student visa interviews is part of the Trump’s multi -faceted attack on universities and international students. Rubio said on Wednesday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will start working with the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) “to” cancel the visas strongly for Chinese students, including those who have links to the Chinese Communist Party or study in critical areas. “On May 22, DHS Harvard’s arrival canceled To a federal database used to track the registration of foreign students, putting nearly 6,800 people registered at Harvard University at the risk of immediate deportation until a federal judge enters.
Rubio also has Visas One of the international students participating in the pro -events protests on the campus. Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Retailed visas Among the “foreign citizens responsible for the control of protected speech in the United States”, that is, the organizers who impose the European Union’s digital services law.
