Many international students won't be able to join US colleges

Confusion deepens as Trump adds new obstacles for Indian, Chinese students

- ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

MANY IRANIANS ARE not going to American universities this fall. Students from Afghanistan are having trouble getting to campus.

Even students from China and India, the top two senders of international students to the US, have been flummoxed by a maze of new obstacles the Trump administration has set up to slow or deter people entering the country from abroad. Between the federal government's heightened vetting of student visas and US President Trump's travel ban, the number of international students newly enrolled in American universities seems certain to drop—by a lot. There were about a million international students studying in the US a year ago, according to figures published by the state department. Data on international student enrollment is not expected to be released until the fall. But higher education is already feeling the pain and deeply worried about the fallout.