Organizations Call on Congress to Give Green Cards to International Students Receiving Advanced STEM Degrees from U.S. Universities

Companies and business and labor organizations – including the American Council on International Personnel, Business Roundtable, Intel Corporation, IEEE- USA, Semiconductor Industry Association and Texas Instruments – united today to call on Congress to enact legislation that would give foreign-born students earning a master’s or Ph.D. in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) field from an American college or university an employment-based green card immediately upon graduating and receiving a job offer.  As the organizations state:

It is in the interest of American businesses, American workers and the American public for Congress to allow students who earn advanced degrees in our most vital fields to become citizens as quickly as possible after graduating. These are the individuals who will be inventing the products and building the industries that drive America’s economic growth in the coming decades. It is in no one’s interest to make them wait years before fully joining the American workforce, or worse, making them leave the country to apply their American-given skills, often funded with American taxpayer dollars, in other countries.

We call on Congress to act quickly to ensure that America does not lose the services of another graduating class of America’s top engineers, scientist and mathematicians.

We Agree!  Let’s Stop the Brain Drain This Year!

Compete America supports bipartisan reforms to permanently fix the U.S. green card and visa system for highly educated, foreign-born professionals.

Click here to learn about the foreign-born engineers graduating in your state.

Learn more about the benefits of highly educated, foreign-born professionals to the U.S. economy.

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Compete America (www.competeamerica.org) is a coalition of corporations, educators, research institutions and trade associations concerned about legal, employment-based immigration and committed to ensuring that the United States has the highly educated workforce necessary to ensure continued innovation, job creation and leadership in a worldwide economy.