USA: Instant Green Card for Phd holders

[GoFlyKiteNow]

Congress Bill seeks direct ‘green card’ to PhD holders

Posted: 2009-04-08 23:34:09+05:30 IST
Updated: Apr 08, 2009 at 2334 hrs IST

Washington: In an effort to retain the best foreign talent in the country, a bill has been introduced in the US Congress, which if passed, would give direct “permanent residency” to overseas PhD students, including from India.

As such these foreign students would be exempted from applying for H-1B visas or other work visas to stay and work in the United States. However, not all PhD would be eligible for the popular “Green Card”.

As per the bill introduced by Jeff Flake, Republican Congressman from Arizona, only those foreign nationals having completed PhDs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) would be eligible to directly apply.

If passed, the Stopping Trained in America PhDs from Leaving the Economy (STAPLE) Act (HR 1791), would end up benefiting the Indians and Chinese the most, as students from these two countries account for a majority of the PhD students in the United States.

The bill also say that such PhD holders be exempted from the numerical quota of H-1B visas.

 

[Ah Guan]

A case of too little too late

While the best brains in Asia have been going into research for emerging technologies; the smartest American students have been lured into investment banking finding ways to inflate balance sheets

When the subprime bubble burst last year, people started to realise Asian nerds are the real value creators of the economy

 

[chewed]

does it mean that we will see less ah neh & PRCs here in SG as everyone will ty to get a green card with their fake degrees?

 

[longbow]

That would further hollow out talents from India. As it is all the best doctors have left India for UK and US.