By Nkiruka Nnorom & Favour Ulebor
As a part of its on-going immigration crackdown, the US authorities yesterday, warned that worldwide college students who both skip courses or depart their programme would have their visa revoked.
The US Mission in Nigeria issued this warning by way of a message on its X deal with, saying that college students who’re caught within the act wouldn’t solely have their visas revoked, however may lose eligibility for future US visas.
The Mission suggested the scholars to stick strictly to the phrases of their visa and preserve their scholar standing to keep away from any points.”Should you drop out, skip courses, or depart your program of examine with out informing your college, your scholar visa could also be revoked, and you could lose eligibility for future U.S. Visas.
“All the time adhere to the phrases of your visa and preserve your scholar standing to keep away from any points,” the Mission mentioned within the publish.
In latest occasions, the US authorities underneath President Donald Trump has turned its consideration on worldwide college students, imposing some restrictions that aimed to steadiness attracting worldwide college students and sustaining nationwide regulatory requirements.
As a part of the stricter measures being launched, the US authorities lately introduced inclusion of social media handles as a part of visa utility necessities for intending college students.
It additional directed worldwide college students to take away privateness settings from their social media handles to permit for what it known as correct vetting.
One of many proposed guidelines aimed to restrict scholar visa stays to 2 – 4 years, and in addition remove Non-compulsory Sensible Coaching (OPT), a brief employment authorization for F-1 and M-1 non-immigrant college students, which permits worldwide college students to realize sensible expertise of their discipline of examine, both earlier than or after commencement.
OPT is usually granted for as much as 12 months per diploma degree and generally is a pathway to increase keep within the U.S. after commencement.
In the meantime, Nigerians have taken to X, previously twitter, to sentence the latest messaging from the US Mission in Nigeria, describing it as coercive and an act of intimidation.
Whereas some netizens held that the US Embassy in Nigeria was rapidly turning into an instrument of intimidation and worry, fairly than facilitator of lawful journey, diplomacy and assist., others posited that dropping out or altering standing was not “mechanically a violation if performed correctly.”
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