educationUpdated: Jul 12, 2020 14:42 ISTFear of deportation in the middle of a global crisis, unpaid loans, rising risk of COVID-19 infection, dropping out a semester and the possibility of never being able to return to campus are among the concerns of Indian students in the US after announcement of the new visa regulations. I did not want to travel as well as different time zones would have made it miserable to attend online classes. Will my stay here turn illegal?,” Kosha Thakur, an Indian student in Boston, said. According to a recent report of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), there were 1,94,556 Indian students enrolled in various academic institutions of the US in January this year. Universities in the US were forced to shift classes online in mid-March in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: Hindustan Times July 12, 2020 09:12 UTC