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On Monday (January 27), Alireza Yazdani Esfidajani boarded a plane in Detroit and headed back home to Iran. He had been in the US for just one day, having arrived Sunday with plans to matriculate in an agricultural sciences graduate program at Michigan State University. But according to the Lansing State Journal, US Customs and Border Protection agents took him into custody and determined Esfidajani was “inadmissible,” the agency wrote in a statement.
Esfidajani signed a document agreeing to withdraw his application for entry to the US, and departed.
The circumstances surrounding Esfidajani’s rejection to study in America are unclear, but instances of Customs and Border Protection turning away Iranians with valid student visas are increasing, The Guardian reported earlier this month.
“The number of cases we hear about from other communities does not compare to what’s happening to Iranians,” Ali Rahnama, an attorney for the ...
