Randhir Jaiswal Ministry spokesperson for Randhir Jaiswal addresses the media in Nový Delhi 17 April 2025. Photo Credit: Neither
The Indian government missions in the United States are in contact with Indian students who have received e -maly, which abolished their visa status and offered them “support”, said the Ministry for External Affairs on Thursday (April 17, 2025).
Comments are a shift from the previous statement that only recommended to the students to “observe the law”. For the Indian vulnerable to the intervention of Trump’s administration, who face the action by the US Departments of State and Internal Security, the Declaration of Mea suggests that their situation takes their situation more seriously than in the past.
While some were notified after being identified as participants in student protests, especially for the benefit of the Palestinian cause, many Indians received notifications because their names appear in government databases for minor offenses, including traffic violations.
Change of attitude
“We are aware that several Indian students have received communication from the US government regarding their F-1 visa status, which will become a student visa. We are looking for this matter. Our embassy and consulates are in contact with students to provide support,” said Mea Randhir Jaiswal.
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In a similar briefing on 21 March, the spokesman said that in the “sovereign positions of the country lies visa and immigration policies, he added that if” Indian nationals are abroad, they must comply with local laws and regulations “.
“Not charged with any crime”
The latest statement of Mr. Jaiswal came in response to the Hindu question about the particular case of Indian student Chinmay Deore. I help the American Union of Civil Freedoms (ACLU), Mr. Deore and three other foreign students registered at universities in Michigan have filed a common petition that demanded that their visa status be renewed in the US Database, which means a student and replacement of the visitors’ information system.
Mr. Deore, who is in his last year of the bachelor’s degree program at Wayne State University, received e -mail from the University of the University of Foreign Students who informed him of the termination of his status because he was “identified in criminal records and/or appealed”.
The petition, however, claimed that none of the four student petitioners, including Nepalese citizen Yogesh Joshi and two Chinese students, were charged, let alone convicted of any crime in the US “No immigration law.
“Legal route”
MEA officials have not confirmed whether they are directly helping Mr. Deore, but stated that they advised students who are similarly affected to continue the “legal route” to obtain a court order for deportation against them to complete their studies.
This week, the Wisconsin court ordered a stay at the deportation of another Indian student ISSER Dasani, who was supposed to graduate next month in a computer engineering program at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.
30% drop in visa F-1
Such events against foreign students are again worried about those who are applying for education in the US this year. In addition to long visa waiting times, the number of student visas released in February 2025, the first month after the takeover of US President Donald Trump, dropped by almost 30%last year.
According to visa statistics in the US analyzed Hindu, the number of F-1 visas (students) issued at the US Embassy in Delhi and American Consulates in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata in February 2024 to 360 in February 2025.
Published – April 17, 2025 20:40 is
