Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Democratic attorneys general from 14 states and Washington, D.C. pushed back against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s proposed changes to visas for international students in a letter to Trump administration officials on Monday.

Under current rules, international students can legally remain in the U.S. as long as they maintain full-time enrollment at their institution. But DHS announced in late August that it would move to set the duration of visas to match a student’s program length and four years at most.

Students needing to extend their stay will need to apply with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, allowing more oversight from DHS. The new rule also makes it more difficult for international students to transfer s

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