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Jul 8th 2020, 2:50 pm

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Re: Student visa delays?

Harvard and MIT have started legal proceedings.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53337392

Jul 8th 2020, 7:42 pm

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Re: Student visa delays?

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Originally Posted by civilservant

I'm not really sure why people think this isn't appropriate.

The students in question were given a visa for a specific purpose, if they are no longer able to follow that purpose, then they should return to their home country The while point of the F1 is that it is not for anything other than studying.

It's the same as someone on an H1B that gets terminated. Your purpose for being in the US is gone, you're gone.

Any reasonable person can see why this is a reckless decision to enforce on a student with no warning.

I can completely understanding why new F-1s are not being issued, but kicking kids out of the country because they can't turn upto class due to a temporary health crisis is cruelty personified. It is hardly like these individuals are going to be a drain on the economy whilst hanging around doing online classes.

I suppose there's a point where this is a political belief more than anything else, but for me this is absolutely no bueno and achieves absolutely nothing outside of alienating high achievers.

Jul 8th 2020, 11:16 pm

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Re: Student visa delays?

I suppose everything is temporary, including studies of however long, not sure this will change much in the foreseeable future.

I would have thought most students would head home, I can see there may be exceptional cases where that is not logical.