July 20, 2020
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2020-07-15 00:00:00, Sybilla Gross, Bloomberg.com
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569
Words/Sentence:
26
Reading Time:
3.79 min
Reading Quality:
Adept
Readability:
13th to 15th
"I'd like to get a bit more clarity before I return."
Even if he does get back to Illinois, Qian doesn't see his future in the U.S. "Because of everything that's happened, the chances of me finding a job in the U.S. have drastically dropped," he said.
In its 2019 fiscal year, the U.S. government gave visas to over 160,000 students and scholars from China, more than any other country, according to U.S. State Department data.
"It's making life for Chinese in the U.S. very awkward."
The whiplash of the the past week has added to the doubts many Chinese students have about studying in the States.
Withdrawing the tighter restrictions "puts the U.S. back in the game a little bit," said Angela Lehmann, international education analyst at the Lygon Group, a Melbourne-based consultancy.
"The policy keeps changing," she said.
The family chose the U.S. school over institutions in the U.K. and Canada, only to watch Covid and racial uprising roil the country.
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