Stories of International Spouses in Georgia Tech

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Saman Bahram and husband Ismail Sadiq in Florida, 2018

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The Georgia Tech International Spouses’ Group is “a space for spouses, partners and families of international Georgia Tech graduate students looking for a community in Atlanta, ”the website said. Karen Yiu, Program Director for Student Diversity Programs, was an intern at the Women’s Resource Center in the summer of 2014 when she took on the responsibility of growing this unique community, mainly made up of international women who were not eligible to enter due to visas. restrictions to work in the United States.

The group grew rapidly, from a handful of members in 2014 to over 100 now. Despite a somewhat less hospitable US immigration policy, the international student population in Georgia is Tech has continued to grow, from 5,493 in 2014 to 7,802 in 2018 (among them were 6,277 graduate students), according to College Factual’s analysis of student visa data …