Iranian Students Set to Start at US Universities Are Barred From Country

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=51660"><span class="small">Karen Zraick, The New York Times</span></a>

Saturday, 21 September 2019 13:05

Zraick writes: "At least a dozen Iranian students who were set to begin graduate programs in engineering and computer science say their visas were abruptly canceled and they were barred from their flights to the United States this month."

Nima Abdollahpour had planned to study electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis. (photo: NYT)

Iranian Students Set to Start at US Universities Are Barred From Country

By Karen Zraick, The New York Times

21 September 19

The students, who were mostly headed to schools in the University of California system, had visas in hand when they were blocked from their flights this month.

t least a dozen Iranian students who were set to begin graduate programs in engineering and computer science say their visas were abruptly canceled and they were barred from their flights to the United States this month.

The sudden batch of visa cancellations, which came at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, set off a scramble by university officials, lawmakers, the students� union and Iranian-American advocates to figure out what had happened.

The State Department said that there had been no change in policy regarding student visas, and higher education officials say that visa problems arise every fall for some of the hundreds of thousands of international students who travel to attend American colleges and universities.

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