移民局新规使得美国大学和国际学生都陷入两难的困境

”我只能在犹豫中等待，不知道我是应该订机票、申请旅行豁免离开澳大利亚，还是应该在家乡城市找工作。“22岁的计算机专业学生Miriam Linz说。

来自澳大利亚的Linz，即将在哥伦比亚大学读大四。在得知移民局关于国际学生在美国上学的新规定后，她感觉自己被“卡”住了——只能在纠结中等待哥伦比亚大学决定秋季是面对面上课还是在线上上课。假如校园重新开放，她可以来纽约上学；假如学校选择远程教学，她将无法入境美国。她说自己不太想在网上上课，并且十分担心自己的学生签证身份是否能维持，因为这将使她毕业后可以再美国工作一年。

在移民局发布新规定前，她本以为无论哥伦比亚大学用什么形式上课，她都会回到纽约，这样至少可以和朋友们住在宿舍，参加学校的社团活动。然而，现在一切都成了未知数。她说，只剩下一年的课程，她不能轻易转到其他项目。如果她是大一或大二的学生，Linz表示她会转学，而且不会转到其他美国学校。“毫无疑问，我会从我就读的哥大退学——不管它有多棒，然后换一所更实惠的澳大利亚大学，”Linz说。

特朗普政府关于国际学生入学的最新规定让每个国际学生群体都面临着挑战，同时也让高校陷入困境：提供面授课程--许多人认为太过危险；不提供面授课程--很有可能失去像Linz这样的国际学生。另一种更糟糕的情况是，即使美国大学现在决定在今年秋季重新开放校园，如果疫情再度恶化，他们将不得不再次改为全程网络教学，而留学生就需要离开美国境内。公共和土地授予大学协会负责国际项目的副总裁伯尼-伯罗拉说：“这真的会让国际学生很纠结，如果你是一个国际学生，从登上那架飞机起，你就不知道是否能在美国待满整个学期。”

现在，各学校争相调整他们的教学计划，有些学校已经公开发布了教学计划，以适应他们的国际学生。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校曾宣布计划同时提供面授、混合和在线课程，该校周一晚间表示，将与1400多名国际学生中的每一个人合作，"使他们的课程安排符合联邦要求"，从而继续向成功获得学位迈进。

Miriam Linz, who will be a senior at Columbia University and is from Australia, said she feels stuck as she awaits Columbia’s decision on whether to hold classes in-person or online in the fall. If the campus reopens, she could feasibly come to New York. If the school opts for remote instruction, she says she isn’t too keen on taking classes online but also worries about maintaining her student visa status, which would allow her to work a year in the U.S. after graduation. “I just have to wait in limbo, not knowing if I should book flights and apply for travel exemptions to leave Australia, or if I should be looking for jobs in my home city to keep me busy until school begins at 10 p.m. [local time] for me each day,” said Ms. Linz, a 22-year-old computer science major. Before ICE issued its new rules, she had expected to come back to New York no matter what format Columbia was using to teach classes, so she could at least live in the dorms with her friends and participate in school clubs. With just one year of classes left, she said she can’t readily transfer to another program. If she were a freshman or sophomore, Ms. Linz said she would transfer--and not to another American school. “I would without question drop out of the U.S. college I was enrolled in, no matter how fantastic it was, for a much more affordable Australian college that is likely going to be in person in the fall,” she said. Under the policy, issued Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, international students won’t be allowed to enter or remain in the country if their universities opt to teach classes entirely online this fall. And should institutions that start with in-person classes this fall revert to all remote teaching if the coronavirus pandemic worsens, international students would need to leave. “For international students this really has a chilling effect,” said Bernie Burrola, vice president for international programs at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. “If you’re an international student, do you board that plane not knowing if you’ll be able to stay the whole semester?” Now, schools are scrambling to adjust their teaching plans, which some had already publicly issued, to accommodate their international students. The University of Texas, El Paso, which had announced plans to offer a mix of face-to-face, hybrid and online classes, said Monday evening it would work with each of its more than 1,400 international students “so that their course schedule meets federal requirements” and they can continue progressing toward their degrees.  source

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澳洲学生直接用E3签证不会更方便吗😂

哥大校长今天刚发了邮件说，学校已经意识到国际生所面临的严峻挑战，学校也会尽全力帮助解决的。各学院会进一步更一步落实具体方案的。

ezstars 发表于 2020-7-8 06:34
澳洲学生直接用E3签证不会更方便吗😂

应该不是签证的问题？楼主的意思应该是如果哥大全改网课，没法入境吧。。。不过应该不可能全程网课