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DISSA), is the university’s office dedicated to helping international students, faculty, and scholars.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, DISSA continued offering typical services while adapting to any problems international students had with traveling and visa during the pandemic. Traditionally, international students head to DISSA for advising, immigration services, and questions about employment or life in the United States.
Now, DISSA keeps track of any immigration changes and restrictions to make sure that international students were able to maintain their status. In July, for example, when the now rescinded rule that international students with fully online courses would have to leave the country came into place, DISSA measured no efforts to promptly make announcements to all international students about how to proceed.
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A 9-year-old Haitian boy could be separated from his older brother by immigration officers on Tuesday, according to their attorney, despite having visas to enter the US.
Milli Atkinson, legal director at the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative, said the two brothers had been detained by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at San Francisco International Airport since Sunday afternoon.
Vladimir Fardin, 9, was planning on visiting California with his brother Christian Laporte, 19, who is a student at Diablo Valley College in the Bay Area. Fardin was traveling on a tourist visa and Laporte was entering the US on a student visa. However, CBP detained and took away their visas because Laporte was missing an I-20 form, which proves a student has been admitted to a school full-time and that they have sufficient money to stay in the US.
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Federal guidance for international students enrolled in U.S. universities is likely to remain the same for Spring semester 2021 regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, an ICE spokesperson announced.
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) federal guidance, issued in March 2020, allows international students with F or M student visas to take their courses online without jeopardizing their immigration status.
Normally, international students must be in the U.S. when studying to maintain the status of their student visas. Because of the pandemic, international students who were enrolled in March 2020 have been allowed to continue their studies online with U.S. institutions.