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Don't the majority of foreign PhD students return to their home countries when complete anyway?
by point78 7y ago
Don't the majority of foreign PhD students return to their home countries when complete anyway?
- fragmede 7y agoYes - but not entirely by choice. Many a PhD student has returned home after earning their degree, because of the US's visa policies, which make it hard to stay after completing a degree. Why would they stay somewhere that doesn't want them?
- protastus 7y agoCurrent visa rules make it very easy to stay. STEM graduate students on an F-1 visa get a whopping 36 months of employment authorization in the US. Look up OPT extension. That's 3 years they can apply to get a H-1B. In fact, getting a M.S. from a mediocre U.S. school is a popular method young people use to immigrate.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoH1-B provides for a terrible quality of life, and is only attractive if options in home country are worse.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoIt is in many cases ask any Indian on a h1b about the Dickensian employment laws in India reliving letters etc.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoI know, and it’s why Indians use H1B, but it’s a terrible policy to be 1 step above Dickensian Indian labor laws and also hurts Americans for the benefit of the owners of capital.
- levosmetalo 7y agoH1-B is slavery. No smart young person that has any choice in his life should be subjected to it.
- lamigra_burner 7y agoYou and I have very different definitions of easy. Nervously waiting for a year to find out whether you'll be lucky enough to stay, then not really having any job mobility for several more years is not exactly easy. God forbid you want to start a family. Honestly in a few years it probably won't be worth the hassle. Maybe it's a good thing (no excuse but to build our sh*tty countries)
- the_svd_doctor 7y agoMany do because they can't stay.