I don’t have an issue with the broad principle of lowering the bar to people with a student visa, but making it automatic is likely going to raise the bar on student visas.
Hey idiot… It’s called a student visa and all of the people I know who were here on one got their green cards shortly after graduating. That’s not some new genius idea… It’s how the system is meant to work…
We have a young person here on student visa and he’s struggling to get a more persistent arrangement and thinks he may have to move back next year when his visa is done. He’s hoping for an h1b, but that’s a lottery… If there’s something he’s missing, it’d be good to know.
Student visas just let students be in the US and have no path to green card.
The paths to green card I’m aware of are being a family member to a citizen, being sponsored by your employer, the diversity visa and the job creation green card.
It sounds to me like he is proposing to skip the whole second paragraph?
That’s not how it worked for any of the people I knew on student visas. All of them had to hope for a job with a company that would support getting them an H1b/EB2/EB3 visa. Trump has been pushing to raise the limits on H1B visas since before the 2016 election, and it’s one policy idea of his I (think I) agree with. One of the reasons so many foreign students stay on for grad school is because it allows them to stay on a student visa if they can’t get supported by a company.
There are 5 ways to go from a student visa to a green card: marrying a US citizen, employee sponsorship (H1b/EB2/EB3), the green card lottery, political asylum, get sponsored by a relative who owns a US company. There is also a 6th way that doesn’t require a student visa, the EB1, but that requires being a recognized leader in your field.
Germany’s overhaul of their immigration system added 3/5th credit to citizenship for foreign students doing university in their country. If you do a 3 year bachelor’s, then a 2 year masters it puts you only two years working from permanent residency. It’s a brilliant move to help highly educated people get connected then prove their commitment to the nation on a path to permanent citizenship.
You need that extra time, or you have the issue Vancouver has where international students with no given Canadian income own something like 30% of the city's luxury housing.
This has been my theory of his continued popularity. He takes every side of every issue, that way anyone can be targeted with ads that match their beliefs.
It’s not even a conscious choice by him, it’s just the way real estate salespeople work, they’ll say whatever it takes to close the deal, there’s no need to be consistent from one prospective buyer to the next.
Trump says something wise like, “Get a vaccine.” And they boo so he stops. Then he rambles for a bit and says something like, “could be poison” and they cheer and he smirks, and continues with that.
there’s also a fair number of students and graduates from certain countries or related to certain peoples that he might want to help in exchange for who-knows-what.
the one thing that is certain, is he isn’t proposing it for the benefit of ‘immigrants’ or ‘foreign students’ or even for the betterment of america… but rather, for himself. it’s always about him.
OK, I just didn’t hear the times he said he opposed them. I do remember him saying we should increase them, since at the time I thought that was a good idea (not sure anymore, since they can so easily be used to just bring in lower paid people instead of how they are intended).