The Trump administration has canceled hundreds of student visas across the nation, and the revocations, which have already begun to affect several local colleges and universities, now involve students in Orange County as well.
Schools that are affected range from large public institutions like UC and Cal State schools to smaller private schools such as Chapman University.
In a weekly update, the California State University system stated they were “monitoring” the situation surrounding the visa revocations and working with individual campuses to provide assistance to students in need.
“CSU students are asked to work with the International Student Services office at their university,” school system officials stated. “The CSU is committed to the well-being and success of all our students and celebrates the rich diversity of backgrounds and perspectives that our international students contribute to CSU.”
According to CSU officials, as of Tuesday, a total of 70 students have been impacted by visa revocations in 2025. As of April 6, at least nine were canceled at UCLA, and last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta stated that nearly 100 students at UC and CSU schools as well as Stanford University had their visas revoked.
KTLA spoke with a Cal State Fullerton official on Wednesday morning, and he said that so far, four students have had their visas revoked. On top of that, the spokesman confirmed that the school received no word before the cancellations.
Those four Fullerton students are no longer on campus, the spokesperson, Michael Mahi, said.
“The university has been in contact with each of those students, and we have given them legal referrals,” Mahi told KTLA 5’s Annie Rose Ramos. “Right now, we’re working with the students on the continuity of their degree program, [because] it’s really important to us to make sure that they continue their education, and we’re going to see how we can make that happen or how that will work out.”
The legal referrals are not through the university but through a third party that works with the CSU system, Mahi added.
Students, of course, are bearing the brunt of the federal orders, and it is having a negative effect on their college experiences.
“It’s absolutely horrifying [that] our fellow students are getting their visas revoked and deported just because they dared to come here to study and build a future,” one Cal State Fullerton student who did not provide their name told KTLA on Wednesday.
“Seeing this happen to students here is shocking and sad…I didn’t believe this would come to our campus because of how diverse it is here,” another student, Melissa, said.
“A lot of these students work so hard to even get an acceptance letter, so for them just to have it revoked, that seems unfair,” said a third student, Yazmin.
Bonta and 19 other attorneys general from across the United States have filed an amicus brief challenging the Trump administration’s student visa revocations.