One graduate student and one postdoctoral researcher at Princeton had their visas revoked in early April, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Daily Princetonian. This is the first known instance of visa revocations at the University.
University spokesperson Jennifer Morrill said the University would not comment on individual visa statuses. It is unclear if additional individuals have been impacted.
Princeton has largely remained silent on visa revocations for the past month as students at universities across the country have had their legal statuses changed by the State Department. According to Inside Higher Ed, as of April 21, over 1,600 international students and recent graduates at over 250 colleges have had their visas terminated.
Across the rest of the Ivy League, eight current students had their visas revoked at the University of Pennsylvania, four at Yale University, 12 at Harvard University, 17 at Cornell University, two at Dartmouth University, seven at Columbia University, and at least one at Brown University. Princeton is the only Ivy that has not commented on the number of visa revocations via spokesperson or campus-wide emails.
This development marks the most significant impact on international campus community members to date. On April 7, Director of the Davis International Center (IC), Albert Rivera, wrote in an email to international scholars that the University was monitoring visa statuses. The email added that the University was monitoring the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database “daily,” and that the Davis IC would be reaching out to impacted students directly. At other schools, many revocations have been discovered by routine checks of the SEVIS database.
Christopher Bao is a head News editor for the ‘Prince.’ He is from Princeton, N.J. and typically covers town politics and life.
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