Indian student self-deports after US revokes her student visa

The North News

Chandigarh, March 15

An Indian doctoral student at Columbia University has left the United States after her visa was revoked for allegedly supporting Hamas, the US Department of Homeland Security has announced. Ranjani Srinivasan, an urban planning PhD student, departed voluntarily using the CBP Home app on March 11 after the state department cancelled her F-1 visa on March 5. US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said Srinivasan had advocated for “violence and terrorism” and called the visa revocation justified. “It is a privilege to be granted a visa … When you advocate for violence and terrorism, that privilege should be revoked,” she said. Srinivasan’s departure follows heightened scrutiny of pro-Palestinian activism on US campuses.