I think the OPT Extension proposal is a great rule. More opportunities should be provided to STEM students. Some critics may argue that this rule will increase the unemployment rate and they believe by offering less opportunities to foreigners, the unemployment rate will be significantly lower. However. I believe this argument is not going to become.
First, STEM majors are those most domestic students are not willing to learn. Let’s say computer science. In the graduate program of my university, more than 80% of students are foreigners and only 20% are locals, including green cards. Notice that my university admits more foreigners are not because there are more smart people outside the country than domestic. In fact, my university put a more strict constraint when admit foreigners, GPA has to be higher than 3.5 and TOEFL scores more than 100. But, there are still more foreigner in the program than domestic, it is because less domestic students select this as their majors. And this is actually happened to most universities in US. So, foreigners only fill in those spots that domestics are not willing to take.
Second, because of the first point, foreigners are not big competitors of domestic students. In my university computer science department, domestic students are all already find good jobs and it is very common that they have several offers from big techs. Therefore, even though foreigners are not allowed to work in US, how can our domestic students benefit from that, more offers? This is actually true for many universities in US, therefore, even if US is not allowed foreigners to work here, the unemployment rate for CS students won’t drop a lot.
Third, if extension rule cannot pass, I am 100% sure that there will be a huge drop in the application to US universities in the next few years. By observing the large proportion of foreign students in each university, I am wondering how much revenue the universities are going to drop. Subsequently, how many people work in these universities may lose their jobs because of it. The overall unemployment rate may probably go down. Moreover, foreign students are powerful consumers. They need to rent apartments, purchase furniture, and so on. The big drop in application to universities will probably make those businesses, which largely depend on students go less profitable and even break up.
Forth, foreign students who are willing to take a lot to effort to come here are be able to find a job here are usually those who are talent and competitive people in their own countries. The recruiters here are smart and rational, they are not going to recruit foreigners who are not talent and good at their majors. In addition, they have to take into account the cost for sponsorship of working VISA. Therefore, if two candidates with relative same strength in their professional skills, but one is foreigner and the other one is local. Of course, this recruiter is going to recruit the local! Only very talent foreigners will get jobs in US. Every single country in this world is thinking how to attract talent people to their place and make contributions there. Are we going to close this door for foreigners?
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This is a great proposal. There are so many international talents working for tech companies in US nowadays. Depends on both American and international workers' efforts, US has the greatest tech companies in the world now and in the future. During the OPT period, international students can gain most valuable experience from industry which gives them a huge benefit when they go back to their countries to continue their careers. Also OPT policy makes it possible for tech companies to hire enough excellent employees. It's a win-win game for United States and international students. Most projects on tech companies take more than one year. Without the OPT extension, international employees most likely can not even accomplish a complete project for their companies before they leave. That will be a big loss and trouble for those companies. There's no hurt, but so many benefits for US to provide the OPT extension.
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