new delhi fear of deportation in the middle of a global crisis unpaid loans rising risk of covid19 infection dropping out a semester and the possibility of never being able to return to campus are among the concerns of indian students in the us after announcement of the new visa regulationsin a move that is expected to adversely impact thousands of indian students the us immigration authority has announced that foreign students will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their universities switch to onlineonly classes in this fall semester due to the coronavirus pandemicwhile harvard university massachusetts institute of technology mit and johns hopkins university have filed a lawsuit seeking to revoke the order some universities including princeton university stanford university california institute of technology caltech and cornell university have announced their support for the lawsuitindias foreign secretary harsh vardhan shringla also raised the issue with us under secretary of state for political affairs david hale during an online meeting earlier this week stating there is a need to keep in mind the role of educational exchanges and peopletopeople relations between the two countries as they played a key role in development of the overall tieshowever the students continue to be gripped with anxiety waiting for further updatesthis will be a big blow to students who came to the us with long term plans i stayed back in the country when the campuses shut in view of the covid19 pandemic i did not want to travel as well as different time zones would have made it miserable to attend online classes but suddenly my stay here is now legally invalid shobhna mukherjee a student at duke university told ptiwhat happens to the semester what happens to the education loan what happens to the work i was doing here at the university to aid my tuition fees and most importantly if i am deported will i ever be able to get back there are no answers to these questions she addeda student at university of illionis in chicago who refused to be identified said nobody saw this coming i was shocked to hear this something which was not imagined in the wildest of our dreams when one moves to a country it is never a short plan it has been thought through before with this the plan i had in mind for the next five years will also go for a toss it is a situation where i dont know what to fear about more disease or deportationi arrived in boston in january only right now my university is deciding to conduct classes in hybrid mode which may be changed to completely online if the coronavirus cases rise further what happens then will my stay here turn illegal kosha thakur an indian student in boston saidvatsala thapar who is pursuing a degree in computer science at university of south california came back to india in march when the university suspended oncampus classesthreatening to deport students while they