UNTIL last week, Supriya Mehta, an international student at the University of California, Berkeley, was happy that her life was headed in the right direction. A senior at college, she had a job offer from a company where she had interned the previous two summers. “I thought I would have to go back to Delhi after graduation. Then I got this job and I was so happy I could stay back and work in the US.” After starting work under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, a benefit granted to F-1 student-visa holders that allows them to work in the US for up to three years after graduating, she planned to apply for the H-1B visa. President Donald Trump’s new visa rules, announced last Friday, have thrown a wrench in her plans. The future is, once again, uncertain.

Now, Supriya says, she d

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