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Cool so what's going to happen after these admitted students do their year or two of online coursework remotely and then need to come to the US to finish in per
by OminousWeapons 6y ago
Cool so what's going to happen after these admitted students do their year or two of online coursework remotely and then need to come to the US to finish in person classes? Are they just fucked if they aren't granted a visa?
The reasonable thing to do if immigration bans are absolutely necessary temporarily would be to issue admitted students visas now but block their use temporarily while instruction was purely online. This would remove the risk of foreign students spending tens of thousands on a program only to be forced to transfer if they can't get a visa later. Of course, the real purpose of this (along with the green card ban, h-1b bans, previous attempts at booting students out, etc) is to be deliberately unreasonable and hostile towards foreigners seeking to enter the US.
- akiselev 6y agoThen they will no longer have a 100% online curriculum, making them eligible for the standard F-whatever visa.
- OminousWeapons 6y agoThe problem is that visas aren't guaranteed so it's very possible that someone could wind up half way through their college career and then not be able to get a visa.
- llampx 6y agoThis has been a very real issue ever since 2001. I studied in the US and tried to minimize the number of trips I took abroad because you just never know what could happen once you are outside the country.
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- akiselev 6y agoAnd it doesn't just apply to students. The US immigration system is a capricious beast for all. I was a dependent on an H1B in 2006 when I accompanied my parents to a consulate (outside of the US) to extend the visa. The State Department placed a "security check" on my parents and we ended up living for months on vacation pay and credit cards, with electricity stolen from the nearest power line and no hot water until my mom started going to the consulate every morning to bother anyone within earshot. We had been in the US for over a decade at that point (getting PhDs, paying taxes, etc.) and just like that we almost had to abandon our entire life here - pets, friends, careers, and all. The ultimate irony was that we couldn't get work permits as illegal immigrants in Mexico to carry us through the ordeal.
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- csunbird 6y agoBeing eligible does not mean that you will get the visa, I had friends rejected even when they have secured a place in a college in USA.