Trump administration revokes over 300,000 visas since taking office

The Trump administration announced on October 20, 2026, that it has revoked more than 300,000 U.S. visas since January 2025, marking an unprecedented enforcement pace. Officials cite criminal activity, birth tourism, and security risks, but civil rights advocates allege due process violations and targeting of pro-Palestinian foreign protesters.

Scale of visa revocations

• ▪State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott stated on October 20, 2026, that the Trump administration has revoked more U.S. visas at a faster pace than any previous presidential administration
• ▪The State Department announced on October 20, 2026, that the Trump administration has revoked more than 300,000 U.S. visas since President Donald Trump took office for his second term in January 2025

Grounds for visa revocations

• ▪During 2025, the Bureau of Consular Affairs vetted 23,000 visa revocation cases, with 25 percent pulled for assault, 22 percent for driving under the influence, 7 percent for theft, and 7 percent for substance abuse or distribution
• ▪A State Department official stated that the Trump administration has revoked at least 4,000 visas from foreign nationals who engaged in or facilitated birth tourism
• ▪A State Department official stated that the over 300,000 visa revocations under the Trump administration were executed for criminal activity, public safety threats, or immigration violations including fraud and misrepresentation

Criticism from civil rights advocates

• ▪Rights advocates state that the Trump administration, since January 2025, deployed national security justifications to target critics and used isolated fraud cases to broadly target immigrant communities such as Somali Americans in Minnesota
• ▪Civil rights advocates state that the Trump administration's visa revocation crackdown violates due process and free speech rights, creating an unsafe environment and raising ethnic profiling concerns among minorities
• ▪Civil rights advocates condemned the Trump administration, since January 2025, for revoking visas of foreign nationals demonstrating against Israel's military attacks on Gaza and over social media comments regarding conservative commentator Charlie Kirk's assassination