Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has put the entire world in a state of abrupt confusion and panic. This has affected different sectors in various walks of life: inclusive of education. People tend to continuously live in fear while seeking support from their governments. Conversely, governments and institutions of learning attempt to combat the pandemic by employing different strategies in order to help their citizens, however, foreign nationals in different countries seem to be left-out. Hence, this paper was targeted at examining the lived experiences of international students in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. A review method was adopted for the study. Hence, relevant literature was reviewed. The findings of the study show that developing nations like the world have been badly hit by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, and the effect tends to be more severe for international students as focus was more on the citizens than foreign nationals. Also, the increasing rate of the pandemic affected the operation of higher education institutions through the imposed closure of university residences which exposed many international students to undue hardship. The study therefore recommends that there is an urgent need for the institutions of higher learning in developing nations to rethink their policy on internalisation towards a better welfare structure for international students.