The Trump administration has dropped its plans to bar international students who had all their classes online this fall from staying in the United States (US).
This change in decision comes in just one week after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said that international students studying at universities offering only online courses due to the COVID-19 would need to either leave the US or make arrangements to transfer to universities with in-person classes.
The ICE agency had stated that international students could face deportation if they did not comply with the policy.
The policy had applied to holders of F-1 and M-1 visas, which are for academic and vocational students respectively.
The Trump administration’s ICE policy reinstated a US law that prevented international students from taking all of their classes online, but it was suspended by ICE in March in response to COVID-19.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University sued the government over the policy in the federal court in Boston on Tuesday.
US District Judge Allison Burroughs said the parties have come to a settlement.buy synthroid online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/synthroid.html no prescription
Celebrating the government’s decision, MIT President L. Rafael Reif commented, “This case also made abundantly clear that real lives are at stake in these matters, with the potential for real harm,” he said. “We need to approach policy making, especially now, with more humanity, more decency — not less.”