Court rules feds can't revoke visa from foreign South Dakota Mines student
U.S. Homeland Security rebuked as judge's permanent injunction allows native of India to remain in country
A postdoctoral fellow at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology can’t have her student visa revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a federal judge has ruled.
Judge Karen Schreier granted Priya Saxena’s motion for summary judgment and issued a permanent injunction this week barring the federal government from revoking her visa, which would have enabled the government to deport her. Saxena is a native of India.
Barring an appeal by the government, Schreier’s order settles a more than yearlong fight between the government and Saxena. The dispute started last April when Saxena was notified by the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi that a review of her records found information about a law enforcement arrest that had previously not been available.
