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

A California PhD student recorded Sevis – the digital guide for the student’s good visa -, which endangered the migration mode.

Speaking to Techcrunch, the student, who asked not to be identified for fear of revenge, said that he was notified by the International Student Center at the college that their identity was identified in examining criminal records. The student said that they were studying in the United States for nearly a decade starting from university stage, and that they had no criminal record.

The student said: “The most likely reason may be an interaction with the police several years ago, even before entering the graduate school,” the student said. “I was conducting research in the artificial intelligence field and planned to continue my research after graduation.”

Over the past few months, more than a thousand international students in the United States have faced visa challenges by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the enforcement of immigration and customs as part of an aggressive suppression campaign published by the Trump administration. In many cases, colleges have not been notified directly by relevant federal agencies, leaving students with little notice – or asylum.

YISong Yue, Caltech Professor, told Caltech, Techcrunch the strict position of the United States government on student visas is “Talent Pipeline”.

“The cumulative effect makes the United States a much less attractive destination for many talented researchers,” said Yi. “Since research is very specialized, when a doctoral student is withdrawn from the project, the project can restore months or years. In addition to students and affected projects, many students feel anxious visas.”

Some institutions have survived because of the campaign. According to reports, students studying at IVY League universities, large public colleges and small free arts schools have been suspended. While the government accused some of these students of supporting Palestinian armed groups or engaging in “anti -name” activities, others have been targeted from minor legal violations, such as fast tickets or other traffic violations.

Some cancels seem to be administrative errors. According to what was reported, one student, Suguru Oonda, a doctoral candidate in computer science at BRIGHAM Young University, was rejected, a visa that is hateful without explaining after a short period of lifting the immigration lawyer. The lawyer, Adam Kraik, said that the government is using Amnesty International to examine the visa holders without verifying the human being, which leads to errors.

Last week, a judge in Georgia issued a temporary order to restrict in the event of about 100 international students whose visas were canceled, and the government ordered the restoration of the legal status of students. The judgment only applies to a small portion of students at risk of deportation, and can be challenged in the line.

Yue pointed out that international students contributed to many modern technical breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Ashish Vaswani, who moved to the United States to study computer science in the early first decade of the twentieth century, is one of the creators participating in the transformer, which is the structure of the artificial intelligence model that supports Chatbots such as Chatgpt. WoJCIECH ZAREMBA, one of the founders of Openai, WoJCIECH ZAREMBA, has a doctorate at Amnesty International from New York University on a student visa.

A recent analysis of the NAFSA educational association found that international students in American colleges and universities contributed $ 43.8 billion in the local economy during the academic year 2023-2024 and supported more than 378,000 jobs.

Yue says he had “multiple talks” with senior artificial intelligence researchers who are concerned about staying in the United States.

He added: “This includes professors at the best universities and researchers in companies such as Openai, Google, etc.”. “The cumulative influence of government actions makes the United States a less attractive destination for many talented researchers.”