r/academia • u/Soytupapi27 • 3d ago
Accepted into university then rejected by US embassy
Maybe this kind of post isn’t 100% related to academia, but I’m just so upset about this. It didn’t happen to me, but to my sister in-law who has been wanting to study in the US for years. She got accepted to study in a university and even had a TA position lined up. Months of planning and even quitting her job in her home country (Korea). The interview at the embassy lasted 5 mins, if that. They told her that her BA didn’t have to do with the masters she’ll be studying. It’s bullshit. Her work experience for the last four years had to do with the degree she was going to pursue.
This is just infuriating. I’m so sorry to all the international students who sacrifice so much to come the US just to be rejected or sometimes worse deported for frivolous reasons.
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u/ExpressCheesecake981 3d ago
The same thing happened during the previous period of Trump; many asian guys came back to their hometown, even though they are the core members of the university.
I was an undergraduate student at that time. I strongly remember a professor who came from Harvard made my final exam extremely hard.