20 Reasons for Visa Revocation: Trump Puts on Notice the 50,000,000+ Visa Holders. You May Be Next.
Posted on December 4, 2025
7 years ago we published a blog about the 12 reasons for a visa revocation. But since then, like the top reasons for a 214(b) refusal, the list of reasons for a visa revocation has grown substantially. Now, we are at 20 reasons – and a close parsing of our new article shows that the actual number is much greater. Why? The overall number of visa revocations has more than doubled in the last year alone – to 80,000. Our phone is ringing off the hook as more and more people are directly and indirectly impacted. For those in the US with revoked visas – primarily, talented F-1 students and H-1B professionals - they are experiencing legal limbo, walking a legal highwire, unable to plan their futures or the futures of their families. How did this happen?
One word: Trump. As discussed in the new article, most of these revocations in 2025 have nothing to do with security or criminal reasons. Rather, the Trump Administration is taking an expansive view of the grounds for revoking visas: be it “anti-American” social media postings; “pro-Palestinian” statements made by F-1 students; any type of encounter with law enforcement, no matter how innocuous or how long ago it took place; nationality-based. All visa revocations are supposed to be governed by a reasonable person-decisionmaker standard, but that has not stopped this Administration. And so the list of reasons for revocation keeps growing longer and longer. By the end of Trump’s term, we have little doubt that the list will expand and expand again. Only the creativity and imagination of the visa revocation decisionmaker will limit the number of potential revocations of the more than 50,000,000 currently valid nonimmigrant visas.
In the meantime, check out our updated article in the Visa Revocation section of this website. If we are missing anything, feel free to write to us at white@bridgewest.com In the meantime, if you would like to discuss your visa revocation situation with us, please contact us.