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January 21, 2021 A streamlined process for awarding green cards to international STEM doctoral students graduating from U.S. universities could benefit American innovation and competitiveness, including leveling the field for startups eager to attract such highly skilled workers, according to a new study by researchers from Cornell and the University of California, San Diego. The new Biden administration backs policy reform aimed at achieving that end, which was part of bipartisan legislation p...

 E-Mail ITHACA, N.Y. - A streamlined process for awarding green cards to international STEM doctoral students graduating from U.S. universities could benefit American innovation and competitiveness, including leveling the field for startups eager to attract such highly skilled workers, according to a new study by researchers from Cornell University and the University of California, San Diego. The new Biden administration backs policy reform aimed at achieving that end, which was part of bipart...

That’s about to change. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has vowed to roll out a far-reaching overhaul of federal immigration laws Wednesday, his Inauguration Day. Though experts and advocates said they are hopeful that Biden’s reforms will ease legal restrictions on immigration, they noted that institutional change will require more time. Harvard administrators, including University President Lawrence S. Bacow, have publicly challenged Trump’s immigration policy over the past...

ETtech Morning Dispatch, 19 Jan. 2021: Top Tech News to Start Your Day SECTIONS Last Updated: Jan 19, 2021, 08:03 AM IST Share Good morning, ETtech reader. Startup funding deals are gaining significant traction in the new year, in sectors as varied as gourmet meat (Licious). India moves to fix glitches in the tech backbone of its Covid-19 vaccination drive. Zerodha CEO bats for more fintech startups in India’s complex mutual-fund space. Here’s a look at the top tech news to start your day....

15 Jan 2021 The Department of Homeland Security is promising to issue a detailed report about the roughly 500,000 white-collar jobs that are transferred from American graduates to foreigners via the huge university-backed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which is often described as the younger version of the H-1B program. The agency “is currently unable to evaluate the impact OPT has had on U.S. workers and foreign students who have obtained work authorization through the programs,�...

14 Jan 2021 Four former homeland security chiefs have endorsed President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for homeland security because he helped deliver work permits to roughly 800,000 illegal migrants. “We each know [nominee Alejandro] Mayorkas as a man of character, integrity, experience and compassion … he helped create and administer the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] program,” said the January 12 Washington Postop-ed by former DHS secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff,...

Donald Trump Sets Wage Protections for U.S. Graduates 12 Jan 2021 President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor has released an updated set of rules to protect the wages of American graduates from the damage done by CEOs’ use of H-1B visa workers. “The U.S. Department of Labor is taking these steps to strengthen wage protections, address abuses in visa programs, and protect American workers from being undercut by cheaper foreign labor,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in ...

In last days in office, president kills the H-1B visa lottery — though its death is probably temporaryThe post Trump Scraps Vital Component Of MBA Talent Pipeline appeared first on Poets&Quants.

Top STEM MBA Programs In big part for my own sake to keep track of all the MBA programs that have recently been STEM-designated and ...

Will Vietnamese student numbers in the US recover post-COVID? Since the proof is usually in the statistical pudding, I periodically have a look at the Monthly Nonimmigrant Visa Issuance Statistics section of the United States Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs Travel.State.Gov website to satisfy my curiosity about the number of F-1 (student) visas being issued to young Vietnamese, especially in the often lengthy interregnum between SEVIS by the Numbers updates. It provides the mos...