SAN ANTONIO – UPDATE (04/28/2025): The University of Texas at San Antonio confirmed that all seven UTSA students — four current and three post-graduate — have had their visa statuses restored.
A university spokesperson confirmed the news to KSAT on Monday evening.
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On Friday, UTSA said five students — two current and three post-graduate — regained their student visas and would not face the threat of deportation.
Below is the original story from Friday afternoon.
ORIGINAL (4/25/2025): The federal government’s Friday reversal of the termination of international students’ visas is already having a ripple effect in San Antonio.
After the reversal, a University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) spokesperson confirmed to KSAT that five UTSA students — two current students and three post-graduate students — have had their student visa statuses restored.
As of 5 p.m. Friday, the spokesperson said the status of two additional current UTSA students is unclear.
In all, seven UTSA students — four current and three post-graduate — were impacted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s original terminated visas mandate, the UTSA official said.
More than 1,200 students nationwide suddenly lost their legal status or had visas revoked, leaving them at risk for deportation. Many said they had only minor infractions on their record or did not know why they were targeted. Some left the country while others have gone into hiding or stopped attending class.
The records in a federal student database maintained by ICE had been terminated in recent weeks. Judges across the U.S. had already issued orders temporarily restoring students’ records in dozens of lawsuits challenging the terminations.
Earlier this month, a UTSA spokesperson told KSAT that multiple current and former students had their visas terminated.
At the time, the university said two current students and two post-graduate students were impacted by terminated visas.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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