US: Complicated student visa rule changes proposed

International students will be limited to a fixed two or four year stay in the US under a new visa rule proposed by the Trump administration, in a move that would end the country’s current ‘duration of status’ policy.

Under current visa rules, international students are admitted into the US for the period of time that they are complying with the terms and conditions of their nonimmigrant category.

But now the Department of Homeland Security is proposing changes to visas which would see academic students (F) and exchange visitors (J) admitted into the US for a “fixed time period”.

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