Cong raises issue of students in US affected by change in policy
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) After the US Department of Immigration and Custom Enforcement said that students whose classes are going completely online will not be issued visas for the next semester nor will such students be allowed to stay, the Congress has lashed out at the government for not paying heed to the sufferings of these students.
The Congress said the government should have settled the issue with their "so called friend Donald Trump."
The US had more than one million international students enrolled in various graduate and undergraduate programmes in 2018-19, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE). That's about 5.5 percent of the total student community in the country.
Out of these, nearly three-quarters were from Asia - 48 percent Chinese and 26 percent Indians.
According to the IIE, F-1 students participate in academic course work while M-1 students are students of 'vocational course work.
The Congress has also hit out at the government over the law passed in Kuwait which can make 8.5 lakh Indians jobless in the country.
Kuwait has approved the draft of a migrant quota bill and 8 lakh Indians may have to leave the country. The Indian community is the largest expatriate community in Kuwait, with a total population of about 1.45 million. Kuwait has a population of 4.3 million.
Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi asked what was the government doing when such a law was passed while Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting these states frequently.
The party alleged that 120 million jobs were lost in April due to the lockdown imposed to prevent the coronavirus from spreading.
