Trump admin has revoked over 1,75,000 visas since Jan 2025: Who is being targeted
The United States State Department has revoked over 175,000 visas since the second term of Donald Trump's presidency in January 2025. These revocations targeted foreign nationals who violated visa terms, committed crimes, called for violence against US citizens, defrauded Americans, abused immigration systems, or endangered national security.
Most revocations were due to criminal encounters, including assault, DUI, theft, and drug crimes, with reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud, and embezzlement also significant. The department revoked visas for nationals linked to Cuban communist regime influence, Iranian regime ties, a Laotian child sex offender, a Kuwaiti national threatening the President, and other significant offences.
The US embassy in North Africa revoked over 100 "birth tourist" visas. High-profile revocations included those charged with felony rape, kidnapping, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and criminal possession of child pornography. The administration emphasized visa revocation as a tool to protect American safety, maintaining that a US visa is a privilege, not a right.
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