We looked at the problems of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and interviewed 10 students from D university and Y university the impact of this policy on overseas students. Participants were recruited by snowball sampling, interviews were conducted in a semi-structured manner, and the collected data were treated as as an hermetic analysis procedure. Our findings suggest that foreign students were suffering from a series of economic problems such as difficulty in preparing deposits and the burden of paying health insurance premiums due to strengthened policies of each government department at a time when their income decreased due to COVID-19. In light of these findings, we propose the implementation a job support program that can link foreign students to study-work-immigration and expand study-study (D-2-7), and the setting of health insurance premiums according to their eligibility, duration, and age.
Key Words: COVID-19, Policies for International Students, Employment-linked Programs, Subdivision of Visa Issuance, Differential Health Insurance Premiums