U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced special relief for certain Syrian F-1 students who have suffered severe economic hardship as a direct result of the civil unrest in Syria since March 2011. This relief applies only to students whose country of citizenship is Syria and who…
The New York Times education blog, The Choice, recently introduced a special series titled The Counselor’s Calendar. It provides advice from experts to keep students on track throughout the college admission process. In conjunction with this series, the Times published a checklist for…
In an op-ed in the Pasadena Sun, Congressmen Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Charles Bass (R-NH) repeated recent calls to action that the United States must take to retain international student graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).The congressmen wrote that…
A story published in The Purdue Exponent, an independent student newspaper at Purdue University, says that international students find obtaining a license and driving in the United States less difficult than in other countries.According to The Exponent, students believe drivers respect the rules of…