From hope to despair: New international graduates desperate for visa extensions
NL TimesIn the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, a growing number of international graduates from across the Netherlands are calling for their temporary visas to be extended as their job prospects have disappeared in the current economic downturn. Several recent graduates launched a petition on April 14 directed at immigration office IND calling for an extension to their temporary residency, which was created to add highly-skilled and highly-educated talent to the Dutch workforce. An extension of their visas is "just and necessary," they say, to give them the chance they need to get a positive return on the high cost of their tuition as international students. At Dutch universities, non-EU students typically pay around five times as much as EU students in terms of annual tuition fees, with many having to borrow large sums of money in order to foot the bill. "Therefore, I believe the government should give more time to international graduate students to try their chance of finding a job in this difficult situation," she said.
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