CH-13 When Foreign Students or Their Family Members Are Sexually Assaulted: Immigration Implications of the Student and Exchange Visitor System – Empowering Survivors

Chapter (13) in Empowering Survivors: Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault this chapter focuses on how the foreign student visa system affects the way academic institutions interact with and provide accommodations and assistance to asexual assault survivors who happen to be foreign students or family members of foreign students. Likewise, this chapter provides an overview for advocates and attorneys of immigration relief available to immigrant student victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.