Education

Scarce Flights, Visa Issues Snarl Students' Plans to Reach U.S.

International students are eager to get to campuses, and schools are hungry for their tuition and housing dollars. Pandemic fallout is complicating the trip.

Students at the Thompson Library on the first day of classes at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 25, 2020. 

Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg
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Students from around the world are eager to study at U.S. colleges in the upcoming fall semester after the Covid-19 pandemic confined many of them to their home countries and left some attending virtual classes in the wee hours of the morning.

Now, getting to campus is the hard part.