Visa revoked by Trump, Indian PhD student at Columbia self-deports

The scholar entered the US on an F-1 student visa

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AN INDIAN PHD student at Columbia University, whose visa was recently revoked by the Donald Trump administration for allegedly "advocating for violence and terrorism" by supporting Hamas, has self-deported and left the country.

Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian citizen, entered the US on an F-1 student visa as a doctoral student in Urban Planning at Columbia, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Friday.

Stating that Srinivasan was "involved in activities supporting" Hamas, a terrorist organization, the Department of State revoked her visa on March 5.

The department said it had obtained footage of Srinivasan using the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Home App to self-deport on March 11.

"Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that one of the Columbia students who had her student visa revoked for advocating for violence and terrorism self-deported using the CBP Home App and ICE arrested a Palestinian student for overstaying her expired F-1 visa," a DHS statement said.