As colleges make the decision whether to hold in-person classes in the fall, ICE is telling foreign students they can't stay here to take virtual classes.
to promote better the kind of social distancing that can be difficult on campus. Some schools, like Harvard, have already announced that their classes will be online-only for the coming academic year. For international students at those institutions, ICE has an ominous message: Transfer to a school with in-person classes, or leave the U.S.
Students on F-1 and M-1 visas that allow them to study in the U.S. who attend school that are offering only online classes “must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status,” ICEthis week. Students who don’t follow the directive “may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings,” the release also said.
ICE’s new rules say schools must “update their information in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System within 10 days of the change if they begin the fall semester with in-person classes but are later required to switch to only online classes, or a nonimmigrant student changes their course selections, and as a result, ends up taking an entirely online course load.”
This is a major blow to the country’s many international students. Those who are affected by the order now have to scramble to meet its requirements, either by trying to transfer to a new school at the last minute, or by going back to their home countries, where differences in time zones will make virtual learning a struggle., international students account for about 5.5 percent of the higher education student population in the U.S. — nearly 1.1 million students during the 2018-2019 school year.
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