US Academic Groups Sue DHS Over Student Stay Limits

Academic groups sued the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday over a sweeping policy change that would impose time limits on how long foreign students and scholars can stay in the United States. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleges that DHS violated the Administrative Procedure Act, the law governing how federal agencies implement new regulations, in its push to end a long-standing policy that allowed students and scholars to remain in the U.S. for the full duration of their training, no matter how long it took.