美国国务院官员周一表示，今年已撤销超过6000份学生签证。特朗普政府持续对部分被指违法的国际学生采取严厉措施。

该官员表示，签证被撤销的原因是相关人员存在签证过期滞留或违法行为，并指出这些违法行为中占“绝大多数”的是袭击、酒后驾驶、入室盗窃以及“支持恐怖主义”等案件。

据官方透露，在6000份签证中，约有4000份因持有人“违法”而被撤销。

根据《移民与国籍法》中关于"因涉恐活动不得入境美国"的相关条款，约有200至300份签证因涉嫌恐怖主义被撤销。

据福克斯新闻率先报道，在特朗普政府对大学及学生签证采取强硬措施之际，数以千计的签证被撤销。

美国政府官员特别针对参与加沙战争抗议活动的国际学生，指控这些学生存在反犹太主义行为并支持恐怖主义。

在一桩备受关注的案件中，塔夫茨大学博士生鲁梅萨·奥兹图尔克的签证被取消，她于3月被蒙面的联邦探员扣押并关入移民拘留中心。法官于5月下令将其释放。

6月，美国国务院要求其驻外使领馆必须对学生签证申请人进行审查，以甄别其是否对美国公民、文化、政府、制度或立国原则怀有敌意。作为审查程序的一部分，申请人需将其社交媒体资料设置为公开状态。一份外交电报指出，若申请人的网络足迹访问受限或可见度低，可能被解读为试图逃避或隐瞒某些行为。

国务卿马尔科·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）为特朗普政府取消学生签证的政策进行了强力辩护。

他在8月初接受EWTN采访时表示："宪法并未赋予学生签证的权利。学生签证是我们决定是否给予你的特权。" "全球各地每天都有各类签证被拒签。就在我和你说话的此刻，就有人申请美国签证被拒。所以，如果当初我了解你的某些情况就会拒签，而事后发现已经给你发了签证并得知这些情况，我为什么不能撤销你的签证呢？"

美国国务院数据显示，2024财年共签发约40万份学生签证（即F1签证）。

由于新任命被暂时叫停，加之新的审查要求已开始实施，预计本日历年度发放的数量将大幅减少。

美国国际教育工作者协会（NAFSA）与JB国际联合分析预测，今年秋季新入学的国际学生人数可能减少30%至40%，导致整体入学人数下降15%。

美国国际教育工作者协会（NAFSA）7月下旬表示：“这样的结果将使当地经济减少70亿美元的支出，并导致超过6万个工作岗位流失。”

报告指出：若七八月份的签证发放量没有显著回升，今年秋季赴美留学生人数或将减少多达15万人。

The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 student visas this year, a State Department official said Monday, as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on some international students it says have broken the law.

The visas were revoked because people had stayed after their visas expired or broken the law, the official said, noting that the vast majority of those legal violations were for cases of assault, driving under the influence, burglary, and support for terrorism.

According to the official, approximately 4,000 of the 6,000 visas were revoked because the visa holders broke the law.

Approximately 200 to 300 of those visas were yanked for alleged terrorism under part of the Immigration and Nationality Act that says that foreign nationals may be inadmissible to the US due to terrorist related activities.

The thousands of revocations, first reported by Fox News, come as the Trump administration has undertaken aggressive actions towards universities and related to student visas.

Administration officials have particularly targeted international students active in protests against the war in Gaza, accusing those students of antisemitism and of supporting terrorism.

In one high profile case, Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturks visa was canceled, and she was seized by masked federal agents in March and put into ICE detention. A judge ordered her release in May.

In June, the State Department told its embassies and consulates it must vet student visa applicants for hostile attitudes towards our citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles. Applicants will be asked to set their social media profiles to public as part of the vetting, and a diplomatic cable noted that limited access to, or visibility of, online presence could be construed as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has vigorously defended the Trump administrations policies on student visa revocation.

There is no constitutional right to a student visa. A student visa is something we decide to give you, he said in an interview with EWTN in early August. Visas of every kind are denied every day all over the world. As I speak to you now, someones visa application to the US is being denied. So, if I would have denied you a visa had I known something about you, and I find out afterwards that I gave you a visa and I found this out about you, why wouldnt I be able to revoke your visa?

According to the State Department, roughly 400,000 student visas, otherwise known as F1 visas, were issued in fiscal year 2024.

Far fewer are expected to be issued this calendar year after new appointments were temporarily suspended, and the new vetting requirements were put in place.

An analysis by NAFSA: Association of International Educators and JB International forecast a potential 30C40 percent decline in new international student enrollment, contributing to a 15% drop in overall enrollment this fall.

Such an outcome would deprive local economies of $7 billion in spending and more than 60,000 jobs, NAFSA said in late July.

Without significant recovery in visa issuance in July and August, up to 150,000 fewer students may arrive this fall, it said.