ISSUES
New Immigration Rules Will Have Big Impact On International Students
Posted: October 05, 2020
ISSUES
Posted: October 05, 2020
Penn State Law School notes, “Specifically, individuals who were born in or are citizens of countries designated as state sponsor of terrorism – Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria – or citizen of countries with a student and exchange visitor visa overstay rate exceeding 10% would only be eligible for 2-year visas subject to renewal. According to DHS, these countries currently include Afghanistan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen and Zambia.”