Trump limits length of visas for students, exchange visitors, journalists

Under a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule released on Thursday, international students and exchange ors will generally be limited to four years, while foreign journalists will be admitted for up to 240 days at a time, or just 90 days for Chinese nationals.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump is imposing new time limits on visas for foreign students, exchange ors, and journalists, ending a decades-old system that allowed many of them to stay in the US for as long as they remained in school or on assignment.

The department said it had found more than 2,100 people who first entered as students from 2000 to 2010 who still had student status in April this year as they enrolled in new programmes, transferred schools or extended their programme dates to remain in the US.