To whom it may concern,

My name is YOUR NAME and I am currently enrolled at NYU as an international student under an F-1 visa. As ISS has already informed me, you are aware of the recent modification to SEVIS guidelines by ICE.

As an international student currently in the city, this would mean that if our school does not act/if the guideline modification is not rescinded, I will be forced to leave the country. While I am but only one of many students facing this particular scenario, as a school that boasts the highest percentage of international students in the country, supposedly championing diversity, it would reflect incredibly poorly upon the culture and reputation of the school to simply allow all of its international students to be deported.

A possible solution is as follows:

Seeing as the modified guideline states “Students attending schools adopting a hybrid model—that is, a mixture of online and in person classes—will be allowed to take more than one class or three credit hours online”, if our school was to announce that its Fall 2020 curriculum once will indeed be a hybrid model as suggested, international students would be allowed to stay in the country.

While ICE has been clear that this modification to the SEVIS guideline is “Due to COVID-19”, the policy shift itself is clearly not in the interest of public health but rather a guise for what has been a series of stark anti-immigration policy modifications from the Trump administration i.e the indefinite H1-B visa restrictions announced last month. In the past our school has seemingly stood against the values and policies of the Trump administration, as one should expect from any self-respecting educational institution. The president of this country wants minorities out of this country, and this is one of the ways he is doing it. I implore you in these times to follow through on the words you have emptily mass-emailed your students year in, year out, and act.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME

PEOPLE TO EMAIL:

ah170@nyu.edu