At the IndiaUS Foreign Office Consultations held on July 7, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla conveyed India’s concerns on the matter to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hal
Current Affairs : New visa rules requiring global understudies in the US with a F-1 visa to take in any event one in-person course or face the possibility of expelling is probably going to “cause vulnerabilities and troubles” for certain understudies, the Indian Embassy in Washington has said.
“These new alterations when a significant number of the US colleges and schools are yet to declare their arrangements for the new scholarly year are probably going to cause vulnerabilities and troubles for some Indian understudies wishing to seek after their investigations in the US,” said a representative of the Indian Embassy.
Reacting to media inquiries, the representative said the Indian government has taken up the issue with concerned US authorities.
At the India US Foreign Office Consultations hung on July 7, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla passed on India’s interests on the issue to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.
As per an ongoing report of Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), there were 1,94,556 Indian understudies tried out different scholarly foundations of the US in January this year. Of these 1,26,132 were guys and 68,405 were females.
Noticing that organization in advanced education is a key segment of the resilient individuals to-individuals ties among India and the US, the representative said over the most recent two decades Indian understudies in American colleges and schools have been the harbingers of a solid association among innovation and development parts between the two nations.
The representative trusted that the US specialists would give sufficient adaptability in their visa rule, remembering the remarkable conditions made by the COVID-19 pandemic for the Indian understudies network.
Aditi Mehta 