Four UAlbany Student Visas Terminated, According to University Spokesperson

By Vince Gasparini | April 16, 2025

The F-1 Visas of at least four international University at Albany students - two current and two recent graduates - have recently been terminated by the federal government, according to a university spokesperson.

“The University was not formally notified of these actions by the federal government, nor have we received any clarification about why these visas were revoked,” the spokesperson told the ASP.

Photo Credit: Albany Student Press

The university actively tracks the status of student visas through the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, according to the spokesperson, who also said that the university is “fully committed to providing support to affected students,” and that multiple university offices are providing them with “the full scale of resources and support available.”

The identity of the students is not publicly available knowledge.

At least two dozen international SUNY students have had their Visas terminated amid the Trump administration’s recent attacks on the rights of noncitizens. They are among the over 1,300 international students across the country who have had their Visas terminated, a figure that is tracked by the online news website Inside Higher Ed.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on international students received national media attention after the arrest of former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who participated in pro-Palestinian activism last spring. 

Other high-profile arrests have included that of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who attended Tufts University and wrote an op-ed in the university’s student newspaper that was critical of the genocide in Gaza being perpitrated by the Israel Defense Forces.

An international student at SUNY Plattsburgh is currently facing deportation, however no arrests have been made at UAlbany.

According to the data analytics platform College Factual, there are just over 1,200 international students that attend UAlbany, making up about seven percent of the undergraduate and graduate student population.