The United States withdrew from the announcement about foreign students.The Trump administration has backtracked on the announcement, saying “foreign students must leave the United States if they take classes online in the fall semester because of the coronavirus.”
As a result, foreign students taking classes online no longer have to leave the United States.
A judge at the federal court in Boston confirmed the information on Tuesday (July 15), according to a CNN report. A reliable source told CNN that the White House had decided to withdraw from the announcement.
On July 07, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that foreign students at universities whose classes would be completely online due to the coronavirus epidemic would have to leave the United States or change educational institutions. Visa will not be issued to any new student admitted to an educational institution where online class-examination is underway.
Universities that go online as well as physically attending campus in a ‘mixed manner’ will be banned from online classes. They will be expelled from the United States.
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston challenging the Trump administration’s decision. The governors of 18 states then filed lawsuits against the decision. As a result, the Trump administration withdrew from the announcement a week later.
Students living in the United States expressed frustration and concern shortly after the announcement that “online classes require foreign students to leave the United States.”
Now, with more than one million foreign students, the decision will bring relief.
News Room, july 15,2020