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Most of the students studying abroad are in huge dilemma whether they should stay or go back to their home country...
The reason why students have these thoughts are because majority of the college have cancelled their in-class lecture and are offering online learning for the rest of the semester as the college cannot risk any students life.
NOW THE QUESTION IS, IF THERE ARE NO LECTURE'S THEN WHAT'S THE POINT OF STAYING ABROAD ?
I will address from both the perspective of why you should stay and why you shouldn't.
If you plan to work in Ireland after the completion of the course then you should stay because as per the information provided by the GNIB department (please check the website for any update), an international student cannot stay away from Ireland for more than 3 months or else they would have to go through whole new process. So if you want to work in Ireland then i would recommend you to stay put and stay safe. Even though college have permitted students to go back to their country but when if you face any visa issue then college wont be able to help you.
The second reason why you should stay is, the authority are in panic mode right now and maybe in the start or mid of April they would be able to contain this virus and everything would be back to normal, so don't rush to a decision of going back to your country as traveling is the easiest way to get infected from COVID-19.
These were the major reason why you should stay in Ireland then traveling back to your country.
Indians should consider going back to India because India is lot more safer when compared to Ireland or any other European country right now. For my fellow Chinese students, I am not sure if its safer in china or Ireland and on top of that in china it would be a challenge for you to access the online lectures due to different laws and internet facilities.
It cost a lot of money to stay in Ireland and obviously it would not make sense to stay in Ireland for the online lectures. There are students who have taken loans for their studies and it would be unnecessary expense for them specially (but if you have taken loan I assume you planned to work here or abroad and if you go back to India and face any visa issue or you are not allowed to comeback, then things would definitely go sideways for you as you would still have pay back your loan).
So if someone doesn't plans to work in Ireland then going back to your country would be best option for you as it would be unnecessary expense for you, but if you are planning to start a career here then i would recommend to not take any risk by going back ( being safe should be your top priority before your career, if you think you can stay safe here in Ireland then you should stay here and think about the long term goal that you came here for).
I hope guys theses points might have made your decision easier
Guys be patient and take a wise decision.
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and yeah one last thing don't forget to wash your hands :)
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