FIRST ON FOX: The State Department revoked more than 100,000 foreign visas in 2025, more than twice that of 2024 in the final year of President Joe Biden’s administration.
The figure is an all-time record, and follows on President Donald Trump’s day one executive order on foreign vetting. In 2024, the department revoked 40,000 visas.
The majority of the revocations were for business and tourist travelers who overstayed their visas.
But some 8,000 students and 2,500 specialized workers also lost their legal status. A department spokesperson said a majority of the students and workers who lost their visas had criminal encounters with law enforcement.
The State Department revoked more than 100,000 foreign visas in 2025. (J. David Ake/Getty Images)
TRUMP STATE DEPARTMENT ORDERS GLOBAL VISA CRACKDOWN UNDER REVIVED ‘PUBLIC CHARGE’ RULE
Among specialized workers, half of the revocations were based on drunken driving arrests, 30% for assault, battery or confinement charges, and the remaining 20% were revoked for theft, child abuse, substance abuse and distribution, and fraud and embezzlement charges.
Nearly 500 students lost visas for drug possession and distribution and hundreds of foreign workers lost visas because they were believed to be abusing children, according to a department spokesperson.
In August 2025, the Trump administration announced it was reviewing all 55 million foreigners who have valid U.S. visas.
Secretary Marco Rubio’s State Department has enforced stricter standards for obtaining U.S. visas. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
State Department principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Piggott added that the administration would continue its aggressive enforcement posture through its new “continuous vetting center.”
“The Trump administration will continue to put America first and protect our nation from foreign nationals who pose a risk to public safety or national security,” he said.
The department also has enforced stricter standards for obtaining U.S. visas.
In November 2025, Fox News Digital first reported the department would enforce a “public charge” rule, denying visas to applicants deemed likely to rely on public benefits. That included health reasons — putting older and overweight people under greater scrutiny — English competency, finances or other potential needs for long-term care.
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So what are you going to do about Antigua GB?
For years we implored you to tighten Antigua immigration system, way before Trump came back in, and what did you do, nothing.
Now crime has risen to an alarming rate,with murders and rape of people.
We even had some expats who were murdered.
I know it’s the hard truth, but Antigua needs clean up as well.
The question is, do you have the testicular fortitude to do it?
When are you and cutie gonna get off your lazy butts and do the tough job, but the right thing?
And don’t try to turn my statement into hate for other islands, I’m talking about those criminal transplants that we know that have made Antigua their base, some in secret and some masquerading around loud and proud.
The likes of that same one who killed Chantel. The secret trackers and the likes. Oh yes they are in Antigua, you best believe.
@Islanman26 stop being untruthful. The police recently reported that crime for 2025 was 14.6% less than the same period in 2024. You may recall that things were so bad under UPP that a chief of police was considered endangered. . You remember when the police were requesting that the public help them by donating moneys to pay for handcuffs? Under UPP, our tourism numbers dropped especially due to the killing of tourists at a major hotel. We were basically on a UK no visit list due to the murders here. Under Gaston Browne our stay over numbers are now setting new records. People even the head of the senate, unlike under the UPP now feel safer (don’t fear rape) Need not tell you there are now more cruise passengers than during the dark days of UPP
When you kiss….. to go their country that they stole from the Indians but they don’t kiss your….. to come to yours. Lol. All now they freezing and dying to be where we’re at and we acting like they’re in a better place than us. CHOOOOOPS. I going dig two cassava.
Look I am for Antigua and Barbuda, nationalisms is dominating elections in the USA and Europe.
What is Gaston ALP going to do continue it’s amnesty for Antigua passport saying it’s Caribbean brothers and sisters and also the UPP continue it’s millennial act for passports, all these syrians, Jamaican, Santo Domingo and guyanese and Chinese and white terrorist have our passport fronting as real Antiguans abroad causing damages to the true Antiguan citizens of three generations going back.
The both party have to stop this crap of rewarding voters with passport,I lived in the virgin islands and that could happen, and if it did and you break the law, they would do like trump and revoke it and deport you.
@ Islanman 26
Keep on dreaming, Gaston will keep Antigua and Barbuda as Open Sesame so people can come in unchecked, that’s how ABLP wins elections, he will not change that strategy
Weeeeeeeed mek me fly without VISA
Lots of them might end up here and add misery on top of misery and after a while could get citizenship, then is fire in we bam bam. Compliments of the wonderful ABLP and the TOP DOG
The folks that believe that our visa having issues has anything to do with our government is so naïve. Trump HATES everyone not white. It doesn’t matter who wins in government, what they do other than kiss his ass. If we had oil what you think would happen? This administration is temporary. You’ll resolve is weak.
One day when America rids itself of all criminals they will see that America born citizens also commit crimes.
So go ahead and blame “foreigners”, you will see.
@just wait.
Foreigners.
There are millions of legal foreigners here in the US, many who came in legally. Many who came and obtain their degree in the US, so stop the bs about” foreigners.
It’s the contention of the US immigration policies, that anyone who comes in illegally, is indeed a law breaker, plain and simple.
Stop having a dumb racist argument, when we are simply talking about immigration law breakers. Are you trying to say that every foreigner in the US are law breakers?
This ignorant argument has to stop.
My goodness.
Doesn’t Antigua have a immigration system as well? I guess not, because a 1000 ” illegal ” migrants came in on a plane and was just let in to roam the island like nothing. 17 of those drowned at see trying to breach other islands boarders.
This is the same immigration system that needs to be tightened up.
But I guess that under this administration there are no immigration policies. So, GB would have been a racist if he sent them back?
Just ignorant as hell.
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