SANA Francisco (Kron) – The University of California University student in Berkeley is sued the US Department of Internal Security and enforced American immigration and customs (ICE) to strip her from the student visa.
Lawyers said that Chair Chen was living in Auckland and obtained a master’s degree in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, when the visa of its international F-1 student was suddenly canceled without a reason in April.
Lawyers said that graduate studies in Chen focused on reconciling urban design while preserving wildlife habitats, and it was scheduled to graduate from the prestigious university next month.
The lawsuit is called US Secretary of Homeland Security Christie Naim and ICE Todd Leon as defendants. Chen is represented, along with three Asian university students who have lost their visas, by law offices, a law firm based in Blazanton.
In early April 2025, the Ministry of Internal Security and ICE in the United States began a comprehensive wave of student information and exchange system against hundreds of international students with F-1 visas throughout the country.
The lawsuit, “Zhuoer Chen, Mengccheng Yu, Jiarong ouyang and Gexi Guo are international students who have legally advanced certificates in the United States under the status of F-1.”
The lawsuit continues, “without notice, interpretation, or any form of due legal procedures, ICE ended the student’s condition for individuals who did nothing more than maintaining the academic position and compliance with their visa requirements.”
The affected students are required to leave the country immediately, to suspend their studies suddenly, and “facing almost uninterrupted tapes when re -introducing the United States” the lawyers wrote in the lawsuit filed on April 11.
Chen, from China, arrived in California in 2017 to study civil engineering at the University of Southern California. She continued her education through postgraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Prosecutor Mengching Yu is a master’s student in the educational learning and applied learning science program at Carnegie Mellon University. She was born in China who lived in the United States 16 years ago, and graduated from New York University before registration in CMU. It is scheduled to graduate in August. Lawyers wrote: “Its studies focus on the intersection of science science and interaction design, and hopes to build a future in education and technology.”
Prosecutor Jiarong ouyang is a Chinese citizen. He is a doctorate candidate in statistics at the University of Cincinnati. Prosecutor Gexi Guo is a Chinese citizen who has a master’s degree in science analyzes from Columbia University.
Lawyers are calling for federal officials to restore the four students ’visas and legal status.
The speed and scope of the federal government’s efforts to end the legal status of international students has amazed colleges throughout the country. Not a few angles of higher education from private colleges and large public universities have not been changed, and the discovery of small liberal arts colleges finished the case after the other among its students.
Students across California State University and university campus at the University of California were canceled as part of their visas under Trump’s administration in March and April. Six students at San Jose State University were affected by ending the visa.
The officials said that four students of Stanford lost visas. Stanford officials wrote: “Stanford is in depth of its international community of scientists and is still committed to supporting the welfare of all members of our society. We understand that these developments may be very annoying for members of our society,” Stanford officials wrote.
Many students who lose their legal status are India and China, which together represents more than half of international students in American colleges. Lawyers said that the termination was not limited to those in any part of the world.
Some schools asked students to leave the country to avoid the risk of detention or deportation. But some students resumed the ends and remained in the United States while they were addressed.
The Ministry of Internal Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the messages seeking to comment.
At least 1024 students in 160 colleges, universities and university systems whose visas have been canceled or ended their legal status since late March, according to the Associated Press review of university data, correspondence with school officials and court records.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.