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An Indian was among four students at Michigan public universities who have filed a lawsuit against their possible deportation after their student immigration status was terminated "unlawfully". Chinmay Deore from Inida, Xiangyun Bu and Qiuyi Yang from China, and Yogesh Joshi from Nepal on Friday filed the lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and immigration officials, saying their student immigration status in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) was illegally terminated "without sufficient notice and explanation". SEVIS is a database that tracks information about nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors in the US. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, which is representing the students, on Thursday, said they "filed a federal lawsuit along with a request for an emergency injunction on behalf of the students who had their F-1 student immigration status unlawfully and abruptly terminated by the Trump administration for n
In 2022, India sent more students to the United States as compared to the previous year while China sent fewer, according to a new report. The number of students from China and India made Asia the most popular continent of origin. Comparable to the drop from the calendar year 2020 to 2021, China sent fewer students in 2022 compared to 2021 (-24,796), while India sent more students (+64,300), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in its annual report. According to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), the number of international students enrolled at kindergarten through grade 12 schools increased 7.8 per cent from 2021 to 2022 (+3,887). No K-12 schools hosted more than 700 international students in the calendar year 2022, similar to the calendar year 2021, the report said. All four regions in the United States saw an increase in international student records from 2021 to 2022, with respective increases ranging from 8 to 11 per cent, the report said. There were 117,3
Despite a stricter immigration regime under United States of America president Donald Trump, the fall of 2017 has seen India post the largest growth in number of students being sent to the US for studies. As per the Fall 2017 International Student Enrollment Hot Topics Survey by Institute of International Education (IIE) in cooperation with other US-based educational bodies, as against a 6.8 per cent growth by China, India was up by 12.3 per cent. "For the third year in a row, the largest growth was in the number of students from India, primarily at the graduate level and in optional practical training (OPT). China remains the top sending country, with almost twice the number of students in the U.S. as India, but India's rate of growth outpaced China's," the national survey of US higher education institutions stated.As per the survey, students from the top two countries of origin-China and India-now represent approximately 50 percent of the total enrollment of international students ..