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I strongly support the STEM opt extension for the international students.

First, STEM OPT extension helps US to attract talents. Those F1 students in STEM field are the best among the world. I remember when I was applying to the graduate school at Lehigh University, only the top 3%  student of my class can get the admission.  The acceptance rate is even lower for more prestigious universities such as Princeton, Caltech. These students are brilliant and creative. All the countries around the world are trying their best to attract and keep those talents. For example, the  Erasmus Mundus program established by European countries is actively attracting those talents. Recently they started PhD program as well. In order to keep those talents, Japan revised its immigration control law and reduced the minimal residence length for citizenship from 10 years to 3 years (http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/highly-skilled-foreigners-to-be-allowed-to-stay-permanently-in-japan). US has been great in attracting international talents during the past through high quality education program and STEM opt training and extension program. Through OPT, they can experience the culture of US companies, which eventually would help to recruit them and strengthen the workforce. If the opt extension is discontinued, the leadership of US in STEM field would be damaged, particularly considering all other countries are actively attracting those talents. If that happened, I can foresee that many students will apply to other countries for their study and work.

Second, it is shortsighted and harmful to the US competitiveness in the world if the international students are deprived of the OPT training opportunities. OPT students are not competing with americans on jobs like cashiers in the Walmart, attendants in McDonald’s. Instead, they are working on the cutting edge of engineering, science, such as 3D printing, personalized drug delivery, high performance computing in national defense, etc. Those fields are crucial to any country in the world. With their contribution, US people can have better health care, cheaper manufacture cost and an even safer country. With their creativeness, new technology based companies may be developed and more jobs will be created for the US people. WIthout OPT training program, all the contribution brought by OPT students would be limited or even completely gone. What is worse, those students will use their talents to compete against US  if US has to send them back to their home country. It is an even dumb decision considering that US has spending a lot of funding and resources training them.

To sum up, I strongly support the STEM OPT extension for both the national comprehensive competitiveness and the benefits to the general US people.  



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I Strongly support the OPT 24months extension for stem majors.
1.Competition exists everywhere, if we cannot avoid it, we should take advantage from it, we cannot deny that it is the reasonable competition that contribute to the high speed technology/science development. US should be open minded if it want to win in the world. This also stimulates US students to study STEM.
2.If there is no OPT extension, studying in US will not be as appealing as it is nowadays for STEM foreign students, and US will sure witness the decline of incoming foreign students in the future. We all know that foreign students brings in a lot benefits for US universities, does any universities want to see this happen?
3. It is US companies that want to hire these foreign students, if these students force to go out of US before they get H1B visa, these companies will lose good resources/choices and thus limiting their developments.  Company always want to hire the right people, and we should give them enough choices. The development of US relay on every single company.  



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Before became a university staff and got green card, I was also an international student. Now I understand why universities need international students at such an urgent extent. Even though we could argue that many private colleges admitted international for profits, how about public schools? Now almost every public university meets with tremendous financial pressure. However, the “out-of-state tuition” paid by international students really made contribution to improve the awful financial situation of universities. And many international students who have a career success later also made donation to the universities’ funds. Moreover, they also drive the development of the local economy. Many apartments was built to accommodate them and earn rental fees, many restaurants have a better business than ever before.

But if we cancel the OPT extension proposal, I think in the near future the international students would suffer a substantial reduction and that situation certainly will have a negative impact to public universities and local economy. And this cancellation would also let those people who previous were international students but now were American citizens have deep doubts of American dreams. I wonder how many of those who are against immigrants coming to US are first generation Americans？


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I strongly agree with the DHS new regulation to improve and expand the training opportunities for F-1 non-immigrant students with STEM Degrees.

Some people argue that the foreign student are coming to the United States and are taking away jobs from the Americans. But they are missing out some important facts. Science is the engine of prosperity. 50% percent of the Ph.D candidates are foreign born and this number is even higher in the high technology systems. These future scientists and engineers are actually making significant contribution to create the whole high-tech industries, which results in the continuous growth in the U.S. economy and more job opportunities for Americans.

We need more scientists and engineers for the whole society improve and develop, not less of them. But there are not enough domestic graduate students, who can fill up the demanding need of the high technology industry. 1 year of training in the field is not sufficient for the foreign students to get experienced and give back to the industry, especially in the STEM areas, which need high intelligence and constant practice. Eliminating the STEM extension will definitely do non-negligible harm to the industries and collapse the economy, which as a final result, would cause more unemployment of the American people.


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I SUPPORT this proposal. International STEM students actually do NOT take American students' jobs.

1. The government should let the students who learned knowledge from U.S. universities stay in the country and let them keep making contributions to the U.S. As you know, the students who have the ability to go to the U.S. to study and get their degree are creative and eligible apparently, so it is no hard to understand why the government should let them stay in the country to make a more advanced and diversified society, not only for the current, but also for the future.

2. Diversity is very important for the U.S. Not like most of the other countries in the world, the U.S. is a country containing many races, and all of the people in the country should have the equality right to study, work and develop.

3. Competition does exist, but is not a bad thing. The majority of international student are good for the development of many fields, so the government shouldn’t let them leave the country just in order to offer work opportunity to native people. Letting good academic elites to work for the U.S. is good for the country to maintain its status over the world.



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I am a student who is deciding to study in USA. Recently, I watch a series called America---The Story of Us. I know that the development of America is really a miracle. Generations of American people fighted for truth and freedom, among those people, huge amount were immigrations. I believe that the diversity of people made great contribution to the nation. What’s more, it’s diversity and freedom make America what it is like today. The frontier of technology and different thoughts convergence into the whole.

I am longing for study in America and felt the spirits of America. You know, it costs a lot to study in USA. After I finish my study, when I come back to my country, I hope to be competitive and mature disposition. I believe study in America not only means learning a lot, but also means accumulating enough professional skills, which can be achieved through internship and working experience. One of the reasons why it is attractive to study in USA is that you provide us the opportunity to gain enough professional skills. That is especially appreciated by my parents who will spend much for my further study. So, improving and expanding training opportunities for F-1 nonimmigrant students with STEM degrees and cap-gap relief for all eligible F-1 students are necessary and welcomed by students.

America is a place full of opportunity, you provide us a chance, we will make great contributions to the nation and communities by our skills.



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I strongly SUPPORT this proposal.
Nowadays, I am studying in a Chinese university and seeking to apply to American university for further study. It’s very attractive for me to have an opportunity to work with different kinds of people. In other words, I want to have a chance to communicate with people from diversity countries and work with them to solve some extremely difficult problems and invest some innovated products. I always believe that different people, especially those who have diversity cultures and customs, will have various opinions and ideas which is extremely important to American companies. Meanwhile, we cannot deny that working with different people can help students, like me, broaden our horizon so we can be more competitive after we return to our home country. Compared to studying and living in my home country, studying in America will cost much more money, so it’s understandable that I want to have the ability to earn more money after I returned my home country. If America cannot provide international students chances to work in American company, many people will try to pursue their academic work in another country which is a severe detriment to US universities and a loss of massive intelligent, hardworking and smart students.
International students are usually young so they are more innovated and talented. Many famous scientists had breakthroughs when they were young and we cannot deny that America is a country of immigrants and it has benefited a lot from immigrants. We can also take massive examples.
Some people claim that those international students will compete with local people. I do agree that more competition mean that this country can develop much faster. America can benefit from it in the lone run because it will urge American to work more efficiently and effectively and perfect their skills. Still, working with international can help them widen their horizons. Today many American companies have branches in other countries which means that American should be acquainted with different countries’ policy and costumes. I believe the most efficient way for American to have that ability is working with international people.

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I strongly support this OPT extension policy.

Though I am not a US citizen, here I try to talk about some reasons why this policy is a must for United States.

Now more and more foreign students are coming to US to attend college and the most of them choose science and engineer majors. Why them bother to do so? Why them decide to choose these challenging fields? Because many of them seek to gain working experience and the opportunity to put their knowledge into Practice after graduation. And stem OPT extension is necessary for them to achieve this goal.

I am currently doing my PhD research in a State University and our University is also a famous Engineering School. I observe that more and more kids from my country, China, choose my school for their undergraduate and graduate study(Master programs in majority). And the most of them go to stem majors.

These students bring money. Can you image how much money they bring to US? Most American students in our school are from Virginia and they pay in-state tuition while these Chinese Kids have to pay international tuition which is much higher than in-state tuition. In these two years our school is doing a large renovation project. We are building new dorm for incoming international students. We are expanding our parking lot. We are building more dining halls. We are extending our library, etc. I notice even the assistantship for graduate students has been increased. All these changes requires large amount of money. As a state university we may not have the chance to receive huge amount of donation compared with private university so I believe the tuition paid by international student contributes at least 90 percent of the cost.
No doubt American kids benefits a lot from all the things above. More money means better facilities, better professors, larger gym and library, bigger parking lot, and more.

These students bring more jobs. On one hand, our university are hiring more staffs and professors to satisfy these large group of incoming students. On the other hand, the local business starting to flourish. Our town is a typically college town which was kind of boring. But in this year, several new restaurants, two new Starbucks and a brand new IMAX movie theatre start to serve. Foreign students bring money and jobs. And with more money and more job, our school and our town is getting better and better. And more American Kids will choose our school. It’s a  virtuous circle.

If the new stem OPT extension policy fails to pass, US universities are no longer attractive. Students will go to other countries(Japan, Europe, Canada, Australia) to receive same level high quality education without paying the ridiculous high tuition(Tuition of US university is the highest in the world). Education is no doubt one of the most important parts of American Economy. So please think of that.


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