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The bill strengthens the State Department's ability to remove noncitizen students who engage in violent or antisemitic conduct—potentially improving Jewish and campus safety—but does so using broad IHRA-based conduct standards and discretionary foreign-policy judgments that risk chilling speech, politicizing visa decisions, and disrupting international students and university programs.
Jewish communities, campus populations, and the public: the bill gives the State Department authority to revoke F/M visas for noncitizen students or exchange visitors who commit violent or harassing antisemitic acts, which can reduce immediate threats and improve campus/community safety.
State Department and U.S. government officials: the bill adopts the IHRA definition and examples of antisemitism, creating clearer standards for identifying antisemitic conduct and enabling more consistent visa adjudications and enforcement.
U.S. national security and law enforcement: the bill allows visa revocation where noncitizens provide material support for antisemitic violence, helping disrupt potential funding or support networks that enable attacks.
F and M visa holders and international students: visa denial or revocation based on the IHRA-related conduct definitions and examples could be interpreted broadly to encompass protected speech or protest, risking due-process concerns and chilling academic and political expression.
State Department, students, and universities: tying revocation authority to the Secretary's foreign‑policy judgments creates discretionary, potentially politicized decisionmaking that could be applied inconsistently and produce uncertainty for international students and institutions.
Students, universities, and research partners: increased visa revocations or perceived risk of revocation could disrupt enrollment, research collaborations, and campus programs, harming education and academic exchange.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Denies or revokes F‑1 and M‑1 student visas for noncitizens who engage in or knowingly support violent, harassing, or vandalizing antisemitic conduct, using the IHRA definition and a foreign‑policy harm test.
Introduced April 10, 2025 by Nicole Malliotakis · Last progress April 10, 2025
Requires U.S. officials to deny or revoke F‑1 and M‑1 student visas for noncitizens who engage in violent, harassing, or vandalizing acts targeting Jewish people, property, institutions, or religious facilities, or who knowingly provide material support for such acts. The bill adopts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism (including its contemporary examples) as the standard for identifying prohibited conduct and applies a foreign‑policy harms test before visas are denied or revoked.