Press TV - American Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have detained and deported yet another Iranian student, who had a valid visa to enter the United States. Alireza Yazdani, 27, who had planned to continue his studies at Michigan State University, was on a flight leaving Detroit Metro Airport on Monday, a day after he was detained and ...

The New York Times | Caleb Hampton and Caitlin Dickerson: Since August, at least 16 Iranian students have been turned away at airports, losing their chances to study at prestigious universities, amid new tensions between the U.S. and Iran. A small room. A language barrier. An interrogation after hours of travel. Months spent preparing for a new ...

Reuters - The United States, locked in a tense confrontation with Iran in the Middle East, has barred Iranians from entering the country on trade and investment visas from Thursday. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services attributed the change to the termination in October 2018 of a treaty of amity with Iran, which is the target of U.S. sanctions ...

Reuters - U.S. immigration officials on Monday deported an Iranian student headed to a Boston university despite efforts by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocates to block the removal. The deportation of Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi, a 24-year-old Iranian citizen enrolled at Northeastern University, comes after U.S. Customs ...

The Guardian | Caleb Hampton: A growing number of students are being banned by US authorities, despite having gone through an intense approval process Mohammad Elmi was on his way to fulfill a lifelong dream. On 13 December 2019, the 31-year-old Iranian boarded a flight to Los Angeles to join his wife in the United States and start a PhD program ...