Iranian student can't attend UC Berkley because of Trump's travel ban

Wednesday, March 15, 2017
BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- An Iranian computer science student at UC Berkeley is caught up in President Trump's travel order.

Amir Sharifzadeh has been accepted to Berkeley's summer program in Quantum Computing.



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However, because of the president's executive order he's not allowed to work at Cal to try and pay his own way.

Also as a non-U.S. citizen, he's also not eligible for school funding.

He has made an appeal to the university, and a GoFundMe account for him is already over the five thousand dollars he needs.
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