Everyone knows that STEM talents are highly valued in the United States, so many project policies for immigration to the United States have relaxed conditions for STEM talents, and a recent incident shows that the United States is making every effort to attract talents and comprehensively recruit talents. war, According to data from the Department of Homeland Security, in the Q2 quarter of fiscal year 2022, 3.22 million people obtained US green cards; among them, 96,000 were new immigrants, a year-on-year increase of 3148%; 124,000 people adjusted their status within the country, a year-on-year increase of 319%!
The epidemic has swept the world for three years, and the world economy has been affected. As a region severely affected by the epidemic, the United States has had a great impact on other fields such as economy, business, and technology.
Now, the impact of the epidemic is gradually fading, but to reverse this situation, it is not enough to rely on people from the United States alone. Therefore, the U.S. government decided to improve the situation by attracting scientific and technological talents in the immigration system, and the first place to introduce talents is It’s an issue with the green card limit.
The US "Capitol Hill" (The Hill) reported, including dozens of former senators and former officials of the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Department of Homeland Security, as well as CIA , National Security Agency and senior officials of the Department of Defense 47 former senior government officials from the Research Projects Agency and other agencies jointly wrote to Congress proposing that immigrants with STEM degrees be allowed to apply without quota restrictions. In other words, talents who are restricted by green cards may get more opportunities!
The letter was submitted to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi), and Senate Minority Leader on Monday, May 9. McConnell, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and a member of the Bipartisan Innovation Coordinating Committee.
mentioned in the letter that the United States’ leadership in the field of science and technology, which is the basis of competitiveness, depends to a large extent on the ability to use domestic and foreign talents.
"In today's technology competition, America's powerful and enduring asymmetric advantage is its ability to attract and retain the best and brightest in the world," the two former officials wrote in a letter dated Monday road. They also said that "bottlenecks in the US immigration system may squander this advantage."
Why is STEM so important? Why did the United States propose this policy?
On the one hand, it is because of the shortage of STEM talents in the United States. However, this is where high-tech companies gather, so there is the most eager demand for STEM talents; on the other hand, although Americans’ performance in STEM subjects is mediocre, the United States’ The university still has the best STEM courses in the world...
Who will fill the two "big holes" on the demand side?
The answer is: foreign people.
To this day, the United States still has the largest number of international students.
In 2017, about 1.1 million of the 4.6 million international students in the world chose the United States.
Engineering, business management, mathematics and computer science were the fields with the largest number of international students studying in 2016-17, accounting for more than half of all international students at U.S. higher education institutions.
The proportion of international graduate students studying in STEM fields is larger than that of undergraduate students. In fall 2017, 60% of international graduate students in the United States entered these fields, with nearly 70% coming from China and India.
The proportion of foreign students in STEM majors in prestigious schools is equally shocking:
Harvard University Computer Science Department, more than half of the students (53%) are foreign students;
MIT ( MIT), foreign students account for 43% of computer science majors, and more than half (55%) of electrical engineering majors;
In the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, 60% of students are international students; in electrical engineering majors, The number is 70%;
University of Maryland , 81% of computer science students are foreign citizens;
Virginia Tech , 77% are foreign citizens;
Purdue University’s computer science department, 76% of international students
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At the same time, permanent residents and citizens of the United States rarely enter STEM majors in universities -
In the computer science major at Yale University , native Americans account for no more than 19%; in the electrical engineering major, The proportion does not exceed 12%.
In fact, according to the National Foundation for American Policy, many U.S. universities’ undergraduate and graduate programs would not be able to sustain without international students.
Foreigners account for 81% of full-time graduate students in electrical engineering, 79% in computer science, 75% in industrial engineering, 69% in statistics, 63% in mechanical engineering, 59% in civil engineering, and 57% in chemical engineering %. Foreign students have achieved outstanding results even in the doctoral field. In 2015, international students earned more than half of all PhDs in engineering, economics, computer science, mathematics, and statistics in the United States; they accounted for 34% of engineering and science degrees
Even worse, since 2008 At the beginning, American students showed a "cliff-like decline" trend in STEM majors.
A July 2016 report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation stated that if current trends continue, international students will account for 10% of U.S. STEM Ph.D. graduates by 2020 half.
Seeing this, if you are a STEM talent and have the idea of immigrating, you can act as soon as possible! Policies are ever-changing. If you meet the requirements, Mr. Tao, a teacher with many years of work experience in the Consulate General, recommends that you submit your application this year! Be careful not to trust the unscrupulous intermediary of a certain book. If you still have relevant questions and want to ask, you can leave a message or send us a private message!
