Filed Date: May 8, 2025
Case Ongoing
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This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here.
On May 8, 2025, an international student—attending school on an F-1 visa—filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In early April, the Defendants abruptly terminated the Plaintiff’s, and other international students’, F-1 visa and records with the Student and Exchange Visitor Information (SEVIS), effectively stripping them of their ability to remain a student in the United States. The Plaintiff alleged that Defendants' actions, allegedly due to a DUI guilty plea in 2023, were unlawful and designed to coerce them and other international students into abandoning their studies and self-deporting. The Plaintiff alleged that Defendants’ actions violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment.
Summary Authors
Scott Shuchart (5/13/2025)
Wymore, Mary Ann (Missouri)
Last updated June 16, 2025, 3:02 p.m.
Docket sheet not available via the Clearinghouse.State / Territory: Missouri
Case Type(s):
Special Collection(s):
Trump 1.0 & 2.0 Immigration Enforcement Order Challenges
Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government
Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government (Immigration Enforcement)
Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government (Visa revocation)
Key Dates
Filing Date: May 8, 2025
Case Ongoing: Yes
Plaintiffs
Plaintiff Description:
Individual plaintiff with terminated SEVIS record
Plaintiff Type(s):
Public Interest Lawyer: No
Filed Pro Se: No
Class Action Sought: No
Class Action Outcome: Not sought
Defendants
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (- United States (national) -), Federal
Department of Homeland Security (- United States (national) -), Federal
Defendant Type(s):
Case Details
Causes of Action:
Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 551 et seq.
Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Constitutional Clause(s):
Due Process: Procedural Due Process
Available Documents:
Outcome
Prevailing Party: None Yet / None
Nature of Relief:
Source of Relief:
Issues
Immigration/Border: