By AFP More by this AuthorWashingtonThe United States announced Friday it will not take in any new foreign students seeking online-only study, after rescinding a hotly contested order to expel those already here and preparing for that because of the pandemic. The policy change was announced in a statement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The original policy change of revoking the visas of foreign students whose classes will move online in the autumn was taken to court by top universities including Harvard and MIT, teachers unions and at least 18 states. There were more than one million international students in the US for the 2018-19 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education. Many schools depend heavily on the tuition paid by those students.

Source: Daily Nation July 25, 2020 03:22 UTC