Attorney highlights due process in student visa revocations

EUGENE, Ore. — More than a dozen students at large universities in Oregon have had their visas taken away. The impacted students are students from Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and Portland State University.

We reached out to immigration attorneys on what the next steps for these students could look like.

Stephen Manning has been serving as an immigration attorney and consultant for 30 years at the Innovation Law Lab in Portland.

He says that revoking student visas in this way is unprecedented - injecting a significant amount of chaos into not only Oregon's court system, but courts across the nation.

Manning says despite these revocations the students are still guaranteed due process by the Constitution.

"The opposite of chaos is called due process,” Manning says, “and due process, and the Fifth Amendment, it's still here. It's still around. And it'll live only for as long as we continue to invoke it. If they want to fight, I think there's resources here in Oregon that can help them get into court if they need to."

Manning adds that each case is unique and the decision to fight these revocations depends on the needs of each impacted student.