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  • ‘US not an option for us anymore’: Indian students turn away from America

    10/08/2025 5:31:01 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 64 replies
    Hindustan Times ^ | 10/7/2025 | Shashank Mattoo
    “I have never seen anything like this in 30 years,” says Mrinalini Batra, a higher studies counsellor who has helped dozens of Indian students find their way into America’s most prestigious universities. Batra is referring to a slew of measures enacted by the US President Donald Trump administration in recent months, from time-limiting foreign student visas and hiking H1B visa fees to demanding a 15% cap on international students at US universities. Taken together, the measures seem to mark a concerted effort to restrict the number of foreign students entering America. -snip- “The US is just not an option for...