The ELT sector in the US was given a strong pat on the back from the State Department's Carolina Casagrande at the EnglishUSA conference - stakeholders said they felt emboldened that the government is showing its support.
The US government is increasingly turning to social media to vet international students and scholars, with USCIS recently announcing it would create fake social media accounts to access information on visa applicants.
Developed for third-party, non-US based F-1 international student recruitment agencies, the standards outline best practices for collaborating with US organisations and for successful enrolment into US secondary schools.
A new "challenger bank" has been launched aimed at international students headed to the US – and the entrepreneur is a former international student.
Industry stakeholders have damned a report from The International Labor Recruitment Working Group after it criticised the US Summer Work Travel program for exposing young workers from around the world to "unacceptable risks".
Following reports that the Anglo-American School of Moscow was to go without 30 incoming teachers following a visa dispute, Russia’s foreign ministry has granted several of those requested.
Research by NACAC has revealed that commission-based agents play an important role at a significant number of US institutions, but some "inherent risks" were noted.
The USA's Optional Practical Training program, which grants international graduates work in the country for up to three years, is under pressure as a bill and a union seek to eliminate it.