U.S. to Cancel Visas for International Students Attending Online Only Colleges this Fall
It looks like there will be fewer Koreans studying in the United States this Fall:
International students in the United States on student visas cannot attend a university this fall if their studies are entirely online, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday.
Korea Times
In a statement, ICE announced that students on non-immigrant F-1 and M-1 visas who attend universities that operate entirely online amid the COVID-19 pandemic “may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States.”
“The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester, nor will the U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States,” ICE said.
The agency added that F-1 students who attend schools that provide a mixture of online and in-person classes will be permitted to take some online courses.
You can read more at the link, but the loss of these students coming to the U.S. will be a blow to the universities and local communities. This is because they will lose money from them staying in the dorms and spending money living in the community. Additionally I would not be surprised if many of these students just drop out since they can’t travel to the U.S. to attend thus the schools will lose the tuition money as well.
I read somewhere that only 50 percent of the usual number of high school seniors have applied for financial aid for college this year.
The world needs to break out of its fear of the #WuhanVirus and get back to work and more normal activities. The seasonal flu kills hundreds of thousands around the world and no one blinks an eye but we have to completely shut down entire countries because of another corona-based virus. Obama never shut down the country during the H1N1 and Bush never shut down the country on the heels of the SARS virus.
Why does this particular strain of corona virus garner so much attention? Everyone is following the CCP model in how to deal with this instead of quarantining those who are symptomatic and leaving the rest of the population alone like every other pandemic has been handled. There is ample evidence that there is a carefully considered plan afoot here. I am going to make a prediction here that I will revisit in December 2020.
The current pandemic will all but disappear by the end of 2020 and will start to be dramatically reduced after the first of November.
Anyone with a brain will understand why I am saying this.
>It looks like there will be fewer Koreans studying in the United States this Fall:
You really mean, “It looks like there will be fewer international students studying in the United States this Fall”.