Who is Chinmay Deore, the Indian student in US who filed lawsuit against Trump administration for possible deportation

Chinmay Deore, the Indian student who filed a lawsuit against their possible deportation from U.S. after their student immigration status was terminated “unlawfully”.
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Chinmay Deore is among four students at Michigan public universities who have filed a lawsuit against their possible deportation after their student immigration status was terminated “unlawfully”.

Three other students, Xiangyun Bu and Qiuyi Yang from China and Yogesh Joshi from Nepal, filed the lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and immigration officials, saying their student immigration status in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) was illegally terminated “without sufficient notice and explanation.”

SEVIS is a database that tracks information about non-immigrant students and exchange visitors in the U.S.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, which is representing the students, on Thursday, said they “filed a federal lawsuit along with a request for an emergency injunction on behalf of the students who had their F-1 student immigration status unlawfully and abruptly terminated by the Trump administration for no valid reason and without notice”.

“The lawsuit asks the court to reinstate the status of these students so that they will be able to complete their studies and avoid facing the risk of detention and deportation,” it said.

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Who is Chinmay Deore?

Chinmay Deore is an undergraduate student at Wayne State University College of Engineering in Michigan, as per his LinkedIn profile.

As per the ACLU website, 21-year-old Deore has been studying computer science since August 2021. He is a native and citizen of India. He first entered the United States with his family on an H-4 dependent visa in 2004. He and his family left the United States in 2008, and he later returned with his family (again on an H-4 dependent visa) in 2014.

After completing high school in Michigan, he enrolled at Wayne State University.

In May 2022, as he was nearing the age limit for H-4 eligibility, he lawfully applied for and was granted a switch to F-1 student status.

Deore expects to complete his degree and graduate by May 2025. At present, he lives with his immediate family in Canton.

According to the lawsuit, none of the students has engaged in criminal activity, violated immigration laws, or participated in political demonstrations. “None of them has been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime in the U.S.,” the lawsuit states. “Nor have they been active in on-campus protests regarding any political issue.”