A flurry of US visa restrictions, along with ongoing anti-immigrant sentiment in the nation, has affected a countless number of early-career international researchers. In earlyjuly 2020, the administration of US President Donald Trump announced a controversial, widely criticized policy to revoke visas of international students attending universities at which coursework was entirely online. ...the visa bans started, so I now cannot return. Because I'm on an H-1B visa, Emory could not continue to pay me because I have been outside the country for more than six months. Most notably, Tanzanians are no longer allowed to sign up for the diversity lottery to get a 'green card', the immigration documentgranted to a permanent resident. Because H-1B visas for skilled workers are now suspended until the end of 2020, international medical-school graduates can't start residencies-and therefore cannot help to care for people with COVID-19.1 have written about how these policies have affected my pursuit of the 'American Dream'.