{"id":1022121,"date":"2026-07-18T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022121"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:00:05","slug":"already-in-the-us-on-an-f-or-j-visa-what-trump-admins-new-student-visa-rule-means-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/already-in-the-us-on-an-f-or-j-visa-what-trump-admins-new-student-visa-rule-means-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Already in the US on an F or J visa? What Trump Admin&#8217;s new student visa rule means for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students already in the US with F or J visas will have only four years from the effective date of a new rule to reapply, regardless of when they arrived or how long their academic programme lasts. The change is part of a sweeping overhaul by the Trump administration that replaces a decades-old policy allowing international students to remain in the country for the duration of their studies.<\/p>\n<p>The new regulation introduces a fixed four-year limit for most international students and exchange visitors entering the US on F and J visas. Officials say the move is aimed at reducing visa fraud, preventing overstays and tightening immigration controls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students already in the US with F or J visas will have only four years from the effective date of a new rule to reapply, regardless of when they arrived or how long their academic programme lasts. The change is part of a sweeping overhaul by the Trump administration that replaces a decades-old policy allowing international students to remain in the country for the duration of their studies. The new regulation introduces a fixed four-year limit for most international students and exchange visitors entering the US on F and J visas. Officials say the move is aimed at reducing visa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022122,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022121\/revisions\/1022122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}