The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a proposed rule to limit the length of time international students can remain in the U.S. for their studies to four years. If finalized, the proposed rule set to be published on Thursday would limit how long certain visa holders, including foreign students, are allowed to stay in the U.S., according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security, which said the proposal seeks to curb "visa abuse" and increase the agency's ability to "properly vet and oversee these individuals." The agency said foreign students have "taken advantage of U.S. generosity" and become "forever students" by remaining enrolled in colleges so they could stay in the U.S. The Trump administration announced a proposed rule to limit the length of time international students can remain in the U.S. for their studies to four years. "For too long, past Administrations have allowed foreign students and other visa holders to remain in the U.S. virtually indefinitely, posing safety risks, costing untold amount of taxpayer dollars, and disadvantaging U.S. citizens," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "This new proposed rule would end that abuse once and for all by limiting the amount of time certain visa holders are allowed to remain in the U.S., easing the burden on the federal government to properly oversee foreign students and their history," the spokesperson continued. Since 1978, foreign students, or F visa holders, have been allowed to remain in the U.S. for their "duration of status," which means the time they were enrolled as a full-time student.

Former Foreign Service officer advocates for social media vetting of visa applicants, explaining how AI could enhance screening to identify anti-American sentiments.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's salvo against Chinese students, promising to "aggressively revoke" their visas, is the latest move in heightening tensions between the world's two largest economies. Despite a temporary tariff truce reached between them earlier this month, divisions between Washington and Beijing remain wide, with recent ruptures over higher education, artificial intelligence (AI) chips and rare earth minerals. Here's all we know about how relations between China and the United States are worsening despite diplomatic efforts. A US-China trade spat escalated after Trump's administration raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145 percent earlier this year, with cumulative US duties on some Chinese goods reaching a staggering 245 percent. Under an agreement reached on May 12 following two days of trade talks in Geneva, tariffs on both sides were dropped by 115 percentage points for 90 days, during which time negotiators hope to secure a longer-term agreement.

For Misha Awad, the process of boarding a plane to Japan and then going through immigration brought with it a range of emotions -- shock, nervousness, bureaucracy-induced tedium and even amusement. While moving to a new country is a major step in anyone's life, Awad's case had an extra layer to it, as it was also the culmination of a long wait to return to Japan. A student at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC) in Yokohama, she and many fellow members of her program were finally able to enter the country in mid-March, having previously had their hopes dashed at the end of November, when their permission to enter Japan was canceled just days before they were supposed to fly due to tightened restrictions following the discovery of the omicron variant . "Knowing for sure I had made it to the gates, I don't need any of these papers (for immigration) anymore, I'm actually here -- that was kind of just mind-blowing," she said. Following the easing of Japan's strict border controls on March 1, which have been in place for most of the pandemic, at least some foreign students have been able to arrive in time for Friday's start of the academic year.

A Vietnamese woman who lives in Miyagi Prefecture sent a message to the "letters from readers" section of the Kahoku Shimpo expressing a grievance. The letter explained that when she informed the Japanese-language school where she had been studying that she had to cancel her enrollment because of financial hardship stemming from the pandemic, she was about to pay a cancellation fee of ¥3 million, after being pressured by the school to do so. The school said that it asks for such a fee to discourage students from quitting the school and switching to a work visa, but experts say the approach takes advantage of students' weak position and is a violation of their human rights. In November 2020, the woman, who is in her 30s, obtained a student visa, came to Japan and entered the Japanese-language school in Sendai's Aoba Ward. She planned to study Japanese for two years with a goal of becoming a nursing care worker in Japan.

In Moshe Vardi's September 2020 column, "Where Have All the Domestic Graduate Students Gone?," the short but woefully incomplete answer is that the wage premium for a Ph.D. in CS is simply too small to justify foregoing five years of industry-level salary. But why is that the case? Part of the answer may be due to government policy discussed back in 1989, when an NSF document addressed the "problem" of Ph.D. salaries being too high, and suggested as a remedy increasing the pool of international students (https://bit.ly/2IuFZl7). This would swell the labor market, holding down wage growth. "A growing influx of foreign Ph.D.'s into U.S. labor markets will hold down the level of Ph.D. salaries to the extent that foreign students are attracted to U.S. doctoral programs as a way of immigrating to the U.S." But the domestic students would find that the resulting wage suppression would make Ph.D. study a bad choice: "... a key issue [for the domestic students] is pay. The relatively modest salary premium for acquiring [a] Ph.D. may be too low to attract a number of able potential graduate students ... A number of them will select alternative career paths ... by choosing to acquire a'professional' degree in business or law ... For these baccalaureates, the effective premium for acquiring a Ph.D. may actually be negative."

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It's probably the result of memories from their long-ago youth, but a lot of older Japanese people tend to have the stereotypical image that dwellings for college students are usually cramped and shabby. Yet take a look at a nine-story building standing in the Hakusan district in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward. Walking through a locked automated entrance, the first thing that jumps out is the first floor looks like a cafe-style coworking space -- except that it's a public area for students. The second to eighth floors are dedicated to living space for students, offering tidy bedrooms, shared kitchens stocked with cooking ware and appliances, as well as common areas with video games and a rooftop balcony. What may be more unorthodox is that many of its residents are non-Japanese and the 364-bed facility, which opened in 2018, is not managed by a school but by a foreign business operator that only recently made a foray into Japan.

CHIBA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 15: A robot arm controlled remotely by an operator is seen in the ANA ... [ ] Holdings Inc. booth during the Ceatec Japan 2019 consumer electronics show on October 15, 2019 in Chiba, Japan. For all the high-technology available and widely adopted in the business world, many traditional industries have not been significantly impacted by it. Sure, developments in 3D printing, big data, cloud computing have created new industries unto themselves. Yet many classic industries, such as healthcare and insurance, have not tapped into the true potential of technologies like artificial intelligence to change the way they do things. That being said, there are always innovators and pathfinders that pursue revolutionary change in their industry.

NAGOYA – The approval rate for visa applications by nationals of countries such as Myanmar and Bangladesh to study at Japanese-language schools from April is sharply down from the same month last year, school operators in Japan said Wednesday. The plunge in the percentage of visas that were approved appears to reflect efforts to crack down on foreign nationals who enter the nation to work under the guise of being students. A survey by the Japanese Language School Association in Tokyo showed that student visas were granted to just 15 percent of applicants from Myanmar, down sharply from the 76 percent approval rate seen last year, and to 21 percent of Bangladeshi applicants, down from 61 percent. The success rate for Sri Lankan applicants was 21 percent, down from 50 percent. The survey drew responses from 327 of the 708 Japanese-language schools throughout the country and collected figures regarding applications for student resident status from April, when such applications peak with the start of the new academic year.