Hours after the U.S. released a guideline that did not exempt foreign students from registering in simply online classes in the autumn, positioning lots of Indian students at danger of falling out of valid migration status, Indian and U.S. officials held their scheduled virtual Foreign Office Consultations. In addition to talking about the Indo-Pacific, the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines, the student visa issue was gone over as per a Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) readout, however the U.S State Department’s readout made no mention of it.