China News Service, July 10, according to the American "Qiaobao" report, when the phone rang in the morning, Raul Romero almost stayed up all night. The 21-year-old Venezuelan student won a scholarship to Kenyon College in Ohio and later studied in the United States. However, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Monday (6th) that international students who are fully taught online in the fall semester will have to transfer to schools with fully face-to-face courses or they will have to leave the United States. Romero spent hours thinking about how to choose.

　　According to Reuters, an employee of the school called Romero and said he would not be affected immediately, but warned that the epidemic may force the school to suspend face-to-face courses during the year. If this is the case, Romero will have to return to Venezuela.

　　Romero is one of hundreds of thousands of international students in the United States holding F-1 and M-1 visas. If the school completely chooses online teaching, then they will face the situation of having to leave the United States during the epidemic.

　　For some international students, distance learning may mean climbing up to class in the middle of the night, dealing with problems of instability or lack of Internet access, or losing the teaching assistant’s salary, and having to stop the research at hand. Some students are considering applying for leave or leaving school altogether.

　　Lewis Picard, 24, is from Australia. He is a second-year doctoral student in experimental physics at Harvard University. He has been talking to his lover how to choose. He and his lover both hold F-1 visas, but the two are in different schools.

　　On the 6th, Harvard University just announced that it will conduct online courses in the next academic year. After the release of ICE's new regulations, Harvard President Larry Bacow said the school was rarely "deeply worried" about the new regulations allowing international students to choose.

　　Picard said that leaving the United States will completely hinder his current research. "The work I do is basically impossible to complete remotely. We have stopped for a long time during the epidemic, and now we have just returned to the laboratory." Picard said. This may also mean that he will be separated from his lover. Picard said: "The worst case is that we all have to return to our own country."

　　Aparna Gopalan, 25, is a fourth-year PhD student in anthropology at Harvard University. Gopalan from India said that it is unrealistic for ICE to advise students to transfer a few weeks before the start of classes.

　　"This exposes their complete lack of understanding of how academics work." Gopalan said, "You can't transfer to school in July, it's not like that."

　　Others are considering that if they can’t study in the United States, they will give up the aesthetics altogether and let the school refund the money. Under normal circumstances, international students will pay the full tuition fee, this amount can help American universities sponsor scholarships. In 2018, international students injected nearly US$45 billion into the US economy.

　　"If you can't accept a real American education, it doesn't make much sense to me to pay for American universities." said Olufemi Olurin from the Bahamas. Oli Lin is 25 years old. She is pursuing an MBA at Eastern Kentucky University and hopes to work in medical management in the future.

　　"It's a bit sad," Olin said. "I've been building my life here. As an immigrant, even if you obey the law as much as possible, someone will always demolish you."

　　22-year-old Benjamin Bing (transliteration) is from China. He planned to come to Carnegie Mellon University to study computer science this fall, and he and his friends are discussing whether they can go to Europe for further study.

　　"I feel like this is driving everyone away." He said, "Actually, we paid the tuition to go to school, and we did nothing wrong." (End)