The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a new immigration rule in September that gives a fixed expiration date to the visas of international students and scholars. This dismissed the previous duration of status policy that allowed them to stay until the completion of their academic program.
With the visas of millions of international students and scholars around the country called into question, the UW’s branch of the Union of Academic Student Employees and Postdocs (UAW 4121) is mobilizing against this proposal to stand up for the nearly 8,000 international students and scholars at the UW.