During the 2020 border blockade caused by the covid-19 pandemic, an interdisciplinary research team conducted quantitative research regarding enrolled international students at Brazilian public universities. The objective was to gather their socioeconomic profile, location, and effects from isolation and remote classes in their Brazilian stay, studies, and academic research. The data presented in this report were collected from an online survey submitted to participants and subsequently processed with the Tableau Public platform that connect the points to facilitate its interpretation. The platform enabled the following items to be visualized: academic immigration profile, location in Brazilian territory, destination university, area studied, degree obtained, and legal immigrant status. The research also indicated their living conditions and challenges encountered under the government migration rules. The data were initially compared with spreadsheets from the National Migration Registry System (SISMIGRA), provided by the federal police. They were later complemented with open interview information carried out from international students’ collaboration. Here we present and analyze only the quantitative results. We hope that they can support academic internationalization policies, optimizing federal police practices, and these qualified immigrants’ reception in Brazilian universities.