A new visa policy in the US has put thousands of Vietnamese students at risk of deportation and left their academic and professional dreams in tatters.

Returning to Vietnam on March 14, 22-year-old Nguyen Tuan Minh was among thousands of overseas students fleeing Europe after the continent becoming the global epicentre for COVID-19. 

HCM City authorities are preparing to receive around 10,000 Vietnamese from Covid-19-affected countries.

Many international students have decided to stay in Vietnam during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Over the past few weeks, while a large number of overseas Vietnamese students have returned home amid COVID-19 concerns, others have decided to stay on in their host countries. 

"Go home please, people are rushing home and so should you!"

So-called humanitarian flights are bringing back overseas Vietnamese from Europe as the continent has become the new epicentre of the global health crisis.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has recommended Vietnamese students abroad consider carefully before returning to Vietnam due to the risks of spreading COVID-19 and travel restrictions imposed by many countries.

A Vietnamese student has just won scholarships to five high schools in the US.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea are investigating 164 local students that have been reported to have vanished from Incheon National University.

Student numbers continue to increase, according to "Open Doors" report from Institute of International Education(IIE).

Vietnamese Ambassador to Belgium Vu Anh Quang has lauded diverse activities of the Association of Vietnamese Students in the European country over the past time.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Tuan Anh, 36, may never forget the hard time he went through as a student before he became a director of a company in Japan.

Touching down in Melbourne, Australia to begin a term of overseas study, Tran Thanh Van was nervous. Her fears evaporated when she was welcomed by a Vietnamese student from an airport pickup service

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese Club from Thompson Rivers University recently organized a gathering event to celebrate Vietnamese Lunar New Year and bring a new taste of culture into Kamloops, Canada. 

“Of all ways, starting up is the only way which allows you to create new value which never existed before,” said Pham Kim Hung, CEO of Base Inc, called the ‘golden boy’ of Vietnam’s math community.

Unable to integrate into the foreign school environment because of language and cultural differences and difficulties with the curriculum, some Vietnamese students overseas have tried to commit suicide.

VietNamNet Bridge - The news that the US and other western countries are tightening immigration policies may force Vietnamese students to rethink their education plans.

 Vietnam ranks second in the number of overseas students in Japan as of May 2015, with 38,882 students, the latest statistics of the J apan Student Services Organisation (JASSO) revealed.

Vietnamese students are not required return to Vietnam after finishing their studies overseas, as they can serve the fatherland anywhere in the world, said Chair of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan.