- Suggested regulatory cover student, exchange visa of four years Max.
- Media visa can shrink to 240 days or 90 days for Chinese citizens.
- About 1.6 million foreign students are currently in the United States at F -VISA.
The Trump administration aims to tighten the duration of Visa for students, cultural exchange visitors and media members, according to a proposed government regulation issued Wednesday, part of a wider crash on legal immigration.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, started a far -reaching immigration crash after joining in January.
The latest step would create new obstacles for international students, exchange workers and foreign journalists to apply to expand their stay in the United States instead of maintaining a more flexible legal status.
The proposed regulation would create a fixed period for F -VISA for international students, J -VISA, which allows visitors to cultural exchange programs the opportunity to work in the US and I visa for media members.
These visas are currently available during the duration of the program or US-based employment.
There were about 1.6 million international students at F -Visa in the United States in 2024, according to US government data.
The United States awarded Visa to about 355,000 exchange visitors and 13,000 media in the 2024 financial year, which began on October 1, 2023.
The students and exchange visits would not be longer than four years, the proposed regulation said. The visa for journalists – who can currently last years – would be up to 240 days or, in the case of Chinese citizens, 90 days. The visa holders could apply for extensions, the proposal says.
The Trump administration said in the proposed regulation that the change was necessary to better “monitor and oversee” the visa holders while in the United States.
The public has 30 days to comment on the measure that reflects a proposal made by 2020 at the end of Trump’s first term of office.
NAFSA, a non-profit organization representing international teachers of more than 4,300 institutions around the world, opposed the 2020 proposal and called on the Trump administration to scrape it.
The democratic administration of then -President Joe Biden withdrew it in 2021.
The Trump administration has increased control of legal immigration, revoked students’ visas and green cards from college students over their ideological views and stripped legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants.
In a memo on August 22, US citizenship and immigration services said it would resume long -date visits to citizenship’s neighborhoods to control what it called residence, moral character and commitment to American ideals.
