US President Donald Trump’s administration is not done adding uncertainty to the lives of foreigners on legally valid visas in America. La...
US President Donald Trump’s administration is not done adding uncertainty to the lives of foreigners on legally valid visas in America.
Last week, the US threw the plans of skilled professionals out of whack by suspending foreign work visas, including the coveted H-1B, until the end of the year. Now, US authorities have announced that international students on F-1 or M-1 visas whose classes in the upcoming semester are fully online will not be allowed to stay in the country.
On Wednesday, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked a federal court to block the order. But the surprise move has thrown the international academic and student community in the US into confusion, even as the country struggles to handle the coronavirus crisis as it crosses the three million-case mark.
“What exactly is the point of all this?” said Adithyan Vetrivelan, an electrical engineering PhD student at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. “How does this help anyone?”
Vetrivelan has been in US since 2017, first pursuing a master’s degree and then moving on to pursue a PhD.
This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester. https://t.co/8DteVzexLB pic.twitter.com/OfkWRKFZZE
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