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Trump Tightens Visa Rules for Foreign Students
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Trump Tightens Visa Rules for Foreign Students

The Trump administration has overhauled foreign student visa rules, requiring federal permission for any stay exceeding four years and stripping universities of the power to extend visas independently. The change hands direct control over hundreds of thousands of student visa extensions to the federal government, a significant centralisation of immigration authority over US campuses.

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