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Trump Administration Plans to Revoke 200,000 Visas of Asylum Seekers
By Aurax Desk | August 25, 2026 | 2 min read
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the U.S. business and tourism visas of as many as 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are seeking asylum, according to U.S. officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press. If carried out at that scale, the action would represent the largest single mass visa revocation in U.S. history and would expand the administration’s broader immigration enforcement campaign.
International travelers arrive at a U.S. airport as the Trump administration moves to revoke certain visitor visas held by people seeking asylum.
The planned action would target B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to people who entered the United States as short-term business or tourism visitors and subsequently filed asylum claims or are currently seeking asylum. The State Department is coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security to identify affected visa holders, according to officials. State Department officials have argued that the measure is intended to address cases in which people entered under temporary visitor visas but later sought to remain in the United States through the asylum system. The administration has not indicated that every person in the affected category would be immediately removed from the country.
Visa revocation and deportation are separate immigration actions, meaning cancellation of a B1 or B2 visa does not by itself constitute an order of removal. The effort nevertheless comes as the Trump administration has increased scrutiny of visa holders, tightened immigration enforcement and pursued measures aimed at reducing what it considers misuse of legal immigration pathways. The proposed action is expected to draw legal and political challenges, particularly over how the government identifies people for revocation and how the policy interacts with the asylum process, which allows people who fear persecution in their home countries to seek protection in the United States.
Sources: Associated Press, Reuters, NBC News, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR, The New York Times and Visa News.
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