The department also mandated that designated school officials are not to provide new international students with an I-20 form that declares their legal student status. Now, international students who "were actively enrolled" at a school in the U.S. on March 9 will not be affected by Friday's guidance, ICE said. As of November, there were more than 1 million international students in the U.S., according to the Institute of International Education. "We consider newly-enrolling international students part of our New Jersey family, regardless of whether they're learning online or not. We consider newly-enrolling international students part of our New Jersey family, regardless of whether they’re learning online or not.