In Trump's Visa Crackdown, Indian Students Weigh Canada, Ireland
- India sends second-biggest number of foreign students to U.S.
- Majority study science, technology, engineering, maths
A youth Congress activist protest against Trump's decision to ban nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries to the US in Jan. 2017.
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Rahul Kolli was all set to head to the U.S. for a Master’s degree in data science with admission to Michigan Technological University and a 2.7 million rupee ($42,000) student loan in place.
Then Donald Trump was elected president and promised a crackdown on work visas that he says undercut salaries for Americans. Kolli has since changed tack and is instead going to the University of Dublin in Ireland, where he says the total cost would be half of what he’d budgeted for in the U.S. and where he plans to work after his studies.