What rules did the United States change when it revised the new visa policy for international students?

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, international students in the United States have been under great academic and psychological pressure. Because the new policy for international students promulgated by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has aroused great anger, ICE recently received a joint lawsuit from universities all over the United States. Lawrence, President of Harvard University? Lawrence S. Bacow said that Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology had filed lawsuits against the US Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau that morning. Lawrence? Bako used it? Reckless and? Cruel? Describe the new policy of restricting visas for international students. In the fall semester, some universities, including Harvard University, only offer online courses. According to the New Deal, foreign students in these schools will have to leave the United States or transfer, and overseas students will also face the embarrassing situation of not being able to obtain visas. In the complaint, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology condemned that just a few weeks before the start of the fall semester, the New Deal would make thousands of foreign students lose the choice of studying in the United States.

Under the strong pressure of public opinion, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) finally relented and quickly adjusted and partially revised the New Deal. The revised rules are as follows: international students still living in the United States cannot all choose online courses; International students currently living outside the United States can choose to take online classes locally; Students who have not returned to the United States to return to school, but are still taking classes online, their student status is still valid, and they only need to remain active in SEVIS.

At the same time, many colleges and universities all over the United States are also planning ways to deal with this new policy, and added offline courses in the fall. For example, the University of California at Berkeley will build a new face-to-face course with 1 credit (generally 3 credits), while some colleges of the University of Florida will adopt the mode of combining 90% online teaching with 10% face-to-face course.

According to the revised rules, after that, students who have not returned to the United States but have taken online courses will still have legal status. It can be said that the revision of the New Deal is the result of the public anger caused by the New Deal and the prosecution of all parties.