Google, Facebook, Microsoft & other tech firms enter case on student visa ban rule. Over a dozen top American technological companies, including Google , Facebook and Microsoft, joined a lawsuit filed on Monday against the most recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rule by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which prevents foreign students from stay in the United States, except for a minimum of one individual course.
The firms, together with the U.S. Chambre of Commerce and other IT advocacy groups. Which were requesting a provisional restraining injunction. And a preliminary order, and argued that the ICE Mandate of July 6 was going to disturbance. Their hiring plans and prohibit international students from being allowed to include companies like amici in the recruitment process. Which the businesses wanted to employ and impede.
A significant number of international students will not be able to participate in CPT. And the OPT programs under the Guideline of 6 July. The US will “unreasonably send these students overseas to work with our foreign rivals. And compete against us instead of capitalizing on their education wealth here in the US”. They stated.
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The Curricular Practical Training (CPT) curriculum requires “alternative work / study, intern, cooperatives practice. Or any form of internship or experience provided by funding employers. By co-operative arrangements with the school of a student.”
The Optional Practical Training (OPT) system provides up to one year of contractual work specifically linked to the main field of research of an foreign student, and can come during and/or after the end of the graduate’s studies. Students in STEM fields, they said, can receive a two-year extension of their OPT postgraduate programme.
“Foreign graduates become an significant source of workers for U.S. companies when they are studying and after graduation. But if they live in the U.S. or move to their home countries”. The firms stated.
Also, reducing the number of overseas students living in America by half or more. Although for a single school year would damage the economy. However, increasing the negative economic consequences of the Pandemic. But per year, foreign students make billions of dollars contributing to the US economy. “Foreign students at US universities. And colleges have added approximately USD 41 billion to the US economy. In a 2018-19 academic year alone and created 458,290 positions”. Corporation added.
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Monitoring that three workers are being created. Due to their presence for every seven international students residing in the US. The corporations said in 2019 that international education. “Was rated as the fifth-largest service export in the world”. The impact of foreign students is a major benefit in small companies. From coffee shops through to bookstores in communities around the country.
The courts also confirmed from companies that all of these graduates. Whether they are prohibited from studying in the USA before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic stops. Are not going to return. So other US STEM schools are going to shrink dramatically so eventually fail to operate without foreign graduates.
