This is a challenging time in which to be an international student ― or a prospective student ― at an American college or university.

The backdrop of the Trump Administration’s latest immigration Executive Order is now also the foreground for a great many students on our campus, and at educational institutions across the nation. Apart from the language of the order itself, and the enforcement measures that may follow, the order brings many of us into uncharted territory.

The Executive Order, which was originally scheduled to go into effect on March 16, calls for suspending immigration into the United States from six predominantly Muslim countries. Citizens from the affected countries — Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya — would be subject to a 90-day ban on travel to the United States. The order does not revoke existing visas approved before that date and does not explicitly apply to current lawful permanent residents and green card holders.