On May 22, the Trump administration suspended Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students, causing confusion and uncertainty for many, including David Gayle, a Kennedy Memorial Trust scholar. After receiving the news while on a bus to New York City, Gayle felt an overwhelming sense of anxiety about his future, as he confronted the possibility of becoming an illegal alien in the U.S. With thoughts racing about his position, friends and family reached out to help him navigate the impact of this unprecedented decision on his education and residency status.
My NYC vacation weekend turned into me being an illegal alien in the US, over 3,000 miles from home, a stranger in an already threatening country where there are more guns than people.
I could not go back to the university I'd worked so hard to get into. Suddenly, my mind was thrown into this flux of 'What am I going to do next?'
When the news broke, my phone started blowing up with messages from family and friends from the UK, all of us trying to make sense of an unprecedented event.
The whole idea of potentially suspending the International Enrollee Certificate was something that had been discussed, yet the reality hit hard when the news actually came.
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