ICE Says Foreign Students Can’t Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite

ICE Says Foreign Students Can’t Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite(forbes.com)

46 points by anmolparashar 5 years ago | 11 comments

fallennode 5 years ago |

Trying to attend online school from a different time zone is a nightmare. Imagine having to wake up for your finals at 3am.

Plus, what are students going to do if school goes online after an outbreak?

It's a rough time to be a student.

malshe 5 years ago |

The announcement is available here as a PDF from ICE website: https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf

This has put an immense pressure on universities and international students. In particular, due to the very short time to make any changes, this announcement has posed a serious challenge.

chrisseaton 5 years ago |

> ICE Says Foreign Students Can’t Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite [Pandemic]

This article title has been truncated in a really silly way.

humanistbot 5 years ago | |

The title is also not describing it right: they must leave the US if they want to keep attending a college that is going online-only (or a college that is doing hybrid instruction, but all the classes they need that term are online only).

N1H1L 5 years ago | | |

They have to leave within 10 days of a college going online only.

patz 5 years ago |

It is a bad enough time for everyone.

xenospn 5 years ago |

Is there a point to this move, besides xenophobia and cruelty?

Vrondi 5 years ago | |

This essentially maintains the existing status quo without updating it for the new realities. It was already true that you couldn't stay in the USA on a student Visa if you were not taking face-to-face classes. They're continuing to enforce that without changing anything for the changed world reality.

sukilot 5 years ago | |

Logic. The visa is for people with a genuine need to be in the USA for education. Obviously online school is no such reason.

Regardless of how you feel about immigration, the education visa is not the way to permit non-educational immigration.

edmundsauto 5 years ago | |

Put pressure on universities to have in person classes, thus making it appear like things are "back to normal" for US based students before election day? The college educated suburban voter is where Trump has been shedding support.

N1H1L 5 years ago | |

The cruelty is the point.