[INDOLOGY] Overseas students and online teaching (US)

[Rosane Rocher]

I tend to believe that the intent is to force universities to re-open in 
spite of the continuing Covid crisis, which Trump claims has been 
palliated.

Rosane

On 7/6/20 6:05 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY wrote:
> From what I have seen, I assume this is Trumpian, and related to the 
> restrictions to H1B visas (which most foreign academics come in on):
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/politics/trump-h1b-work-visas.html
>
> There was debate at one point that non-commercial organisations such 
> as universities would be excluded from this ban; but they are now in 
> it, as far as I know.
>
> A step leading up to those restrictions was that the government got 
> rid of expedited processing for H1Bs (for a fee, a reply within a 
> period of a few weeks was guaranteed - which often was the only way to 
> get a foreign academic into the US in time for them to start their 
> work on time/at the beginning of the semester).
>
> Not a good time, neither for people nor institutions.
>
> --Antonia
>
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 23:53, Jeffery Long via INDOLOGY 
> <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you for alerting us to this, Patricia. Do you have a sense
>     of whether this is COVID-19-related, or just more Trumpian BS?
>
>     All the best,
>     Jeff
>
>     Dr. Jeffery D. Long
>     Professor of Religion & Asian Studies
>     Elizabethtown College
>
>
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>
>     On Monday, July 6, 2020, 5:26 PM, Rosane Rocher via INDOLOGY
>     <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
>     wrote:
>
>         This is insane.
>
>         Rosane Rocher
>
>         On 7/6/20 3:28 PM, Patricia Sauthoff via INDOLOGY wrote:
>>         I wanted to bring this to the attention of anyone teaching in
>>         the US this autumn.
>>
>>         The US government has made changes to its overseas student
>>         visa rules. Overseas students may now no longer remain in the
>>         US if their universities operate entirely online. They either
>>         must leave the country or transfer to a school with in-person
>>         instruction.
>>         https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during
>>
>>         Best wishes,
>>
>>         Patricia
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Patricia Sauthoff
>>         (she/her/they/them)
>>         Postdoctoral Fellow
>>         AyurYog.org <http://AyurYog.org>
>>         Department of History and Classics
>>         University of Alberta
>>         Edmonton, Canada
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