Winning admission to Harvard University has achieved a long -standing goal for Yonas Nuguse, a student in Ethiopia who endured a war in the country TIGRAY regionCloses on the Internet and by telephone, and the COVVI -19 pandemic – which all made high school impossible in time.
Now it is not clear if it will arrive this fall on the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He and other students admitted from around the world to follow impatiently Feud with the Trump administrationlooking for it Registration of international students.
Harvard challenged President Donald Trump’s latest move on Thursday to prevent foreign students from entering the United States to attend the college, calling for illegal reprisals for Harvard rejection of white chamber requests. In a modified trial filed on Thursday, Harvard said that the president was trying an end to the end of the court. Last month, a federal judge blocked The Ministry of Internal Security of Harvard’s certification to welcome foreign students.
Entrance to Harvard, then month of uncertainty
Increasingly, the oldest and best known university in the country has attracted some of the most brilliant minds of Around the worldWith international students representing a quarter of his registrations. While Harvard’s fight with the administration takes place, foreign students can only wait to find out if they can attend school. Some weigh other options.
For Nuguse, 21, the war In Ethiopia, schools have forced schools to close in many regions of the province. After the resumption of schooling, he then took a sabbatical year to study and save money to pay for his skill test in English Toefl in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
“War affected me a lot and when I discovered the news that I was accepted at Harvard, I was ecstatic. I knew it was a proud moment for my family, my teachers, my mentors and my friends, who played a decisive role in my success,” he said.
The following months were filled with uncertainty. Trump on Wednesday signed a directive to block the American entrance for international students from Harvard, who would block thousands of people who are expected to come to the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for summer and autumn conditions.
The challenge of the Harvard court a day later attacked Trump’s legal justification for action – a federal law allowing him to block a “class of foreigners” deemed detrimental to the interests of the nation. Target only those who come to the United States to study at Harvard are not considered a “class of foreigners,” said Harvard in his file.
“The actions of the president are therefore not undertaken to protect the” interests of the United States “, but rather to continue a government vendetta against Harvard,” wrote the university.
In the meantime, Harvard makes emergency plans so that students and visiting researchers can continue their work at the university, said President Alan Garber in a message on campus and the elders.
“Each of us is part of a truly global university community,” said Garber on Thursday. “We know that the advantages of bringing talented people around the world to be unique and irreplaceable.”
The repression of international students affects interest in the United States
The confrontation with Harvard intervenes while the administration tightens the examination of student visas nationwide. Thousands of students across the country suddenly losing permission to be in the United States This spring before the administration overturns, and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that the United States “would aggressively revoke” the visas for China students.
While many students admitted that they are waiting to know if they can come to the United States, potential students still in high school are starting to look elsewhere, said Mike Henniger, CEO of Illume Student Advisory Services.
“It’s a blow after the other,” said Henniger, who works with colleges in the United States, Canada and Europe to recruit international students. “At this stage, the international interest of students in the United States has mainly fell to zero.”
The future of around 7,000 Harvard international students has been suspended from the balance since the Department of Homeland Security First moved To block his foreign inscriptions on May 22.
For many, the twists and turns are exhausting. Jing, a 23-year-old master’s student, is currently completing an internship in China this summer and does not know if he can return to the United States for the fall semester.
“It’s tiring, we all feel numb now. Trump is just making the titles once every few days since he returned to the White House,” said Jing, who agreed to speak under his family name for reprisals from the Trump administration.
Jing said he was going to watch and see what’s going on at the moment, in case the move against international students is a negotiation tactic that does not remain.
The possibility that Trump can block foreign registrations in other colleges only increases uncertainty for students who plan to continue their studies abroad, said Craig Riggs, who has been working in international education for about 30 years and is editor -in -chief of Icef Monitor. He said he urged families to consult the advisers carefully and not to react excessively to the headlines of the day.
“The rules under which the students would make this huge decision to devote years of their lives and a lot of money to study at Harvard proved to be changing fairly quickly,” said Riggs.
As an budding economist, Nuguse was the only student accepted at Harvard this year of Kalamino Special High School, which is aimed at gifted students from disadvantaged backgrounds from all over Tigray.
After also receiving acceptance at Columbia University and Amherst College, Nuguse chose Harvard, in which he had long dreamed of participating. He said he hoped it would work to attend Harvard.
Nuguse obtained a visa to study at Harvard, and he worries that it could be too late to cancel his decision and attend another university anyway. He received an email from Harvard last week, telling him to register and underline the order of a judge in favor of Harvard in the dispute over foreign registration.
“I hope that the situation is temporary and that I can register on time to continue and realize my dream away from reality in Ethiopia,” he said.
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The writers of the Associated Press Collin Binkley, Jocelyn Gecker and Cheyanne Mumphrey contributed to this report.
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