Almost a year after the Australian Government imposed travel restrictions, thousands of international students are still stuck overseas, with no indication of when they can return to the lives they painstakingly built in Australia, often at the cost of thousands of dollars.
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Sandeep Kaushik travelled to India in March this year to recover from his injuries that he had sustained in a road accident in Sydney, that stalled his life and forced him to defer his undergraduate degree.
The 28-year-old business student who had planned to return in May after a full recovery didn’t know at the time that six months later, his world would be rocked yet again.
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53% of students are considering switching destinations if they can start on campus sooner - report
More than 6,600 currently-enrolled international students are stranded in India
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Australia slammed shut its international borders, leaving over 6,000 current students in the lurch - with incomplete degrees and many without their belongings or visas nearing expiry.