Visa Backlog Risks Foreign Students' Business Dreams

lerkin
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:38:54 +0000

As the parent of a US kid who will likely be looking to get into a Physics PhD program in a few years, I wish we weren’t funding their research to start with… just saying.



My understanding is that the reason why we are funding their research is because there are not enough US citizens competing for the spots in PhD program.

The reason why my place of employment has so many non-US citizens, non-green card holders, is because we cannot find enough US citizens with PhDs. For the jobs requiring clearance, we have to resolve lowering education requirement to MS level to get US citizens.