The Trump administration has revoked more than 300,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, the State Department announced Tuesday, calling it the largest and fastest visa-cancellation campaign by any administration in American history.
A U.S. passport visa page with a visa sticker affixed.
The Announcement
According to reporting by the New York Post, a State Department official said the revocations were issued as a consequence of criminal activity, threats to public safety, or immigration violations such as fraud and misrepresentation. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said the pace of revocations had no precedent.
“With over 300,000 revocations, the Trump administration has revoked more visas at a faster pace than any administration in history,” Pigott said, according to the report.
“Let the message be clear: we have zero tolerance for foreigners here on visas who break the law, commit fraud, or undermine our national security,” Pigott added. “We are taking, and will continue to take, action to keep our borders, and our nation, secure.”
The department did not disclose the nationalities of the people whose visas were pulled.
A Faster Pace in 2026
The milestone caps a sharp acceleration in visa vetting this year. Last month, the State Department confirmed that roughly 250,000 revocations had been recorded since January 2025 — meaning tens of thousands more were added in the weeks since.
Officials say the pace has picked up dramatically in 2026. The Bureau of Consular Affairs vetted only about 23,000 cases last year, according to the department’s figures.
For the visas canceled in 2025, the department provided a partial breakdown of the offenses behind the decisions: about a quarter involved assaults or related crimes, another 22 percent were for driving under the influence, 7 percent for theft, and 7 percent for substance abuse or distribution. The remainder were tied to fraud, threats to public safety, or immigration violations.
Birth Tourism in the Crosshairs
At least 4,000 of the revoked visas belonged to foreign nationals who engaged in or helped facilitate “birth tourism” — the practice of traveling to the United States so that a child born on American soil acquires U.S. citizenship at birth — the State Department official said.
The administration has separately targeted the practice through a dedicated Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force. According to a White House fact sheet released the same day, more than 700 visas held by Chinese nationals have been revoked by that task force since it was launched in August.
The task force and the broader revocation drive are part of the same enforcement push, which the White House described as having also revoked 6,000 visas held by foreign students who committed crimes or had ties to terrorism.
Immigration stamps in a passport, including U.S. admission stamps.
What This Means
The 300,000 figure is the latest marker in one of the most aggressive immigration enforcement campaigns in modern U.S. history. The administration has framed every visa as “a privilege, not a right,” and has paired the revocations with stepped-up screening of applicants, social-media vetting, and deportation operations aimed at visa overstays and criminal offenders.
Supporters say the crackdown restores integrity to the visa system and removes people who abused it. Critics, including immigration advocates and civil-liberties groups, have warned that the scale and speed of the revocations — and the administration’s reluctance to publish detailed national or categorical breakdowns — raise questions about due process and whether legitimate visa holders are being swept up.
The U.S. Department of State headquarters in Washington, D.C.
What Happens Next
The State Department says the revocations will continue, and the pace suggests the total will keep climbing through the rest of the year. With midterm elections two weeks away, the administration is likely to keep immigration enforcement at the center of its pitch to voters.
Meanwhile, watchdog groups and lawmakers are pressing for more transparency: the full list of nationalities affected, the share of revocations tied to each category of offense, and how many of the revoked visas were later reinstated on appeal or review. Until that data is released, the 300,000 figure — and the administration’s claim that it leads all previous administrations — will keep being debated.
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