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Only Obstacle to Immigration Bill Is Partisanship
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Congress at last appears poised to increase the number of green cards the U.S. allots to foreign graduates with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math. Unless partisanship kills the effort.
The House is scheduled to vote Sept. 20 on Republican Representative Lamar Smith’s legislation to provide up to 55,000 green cards annually for foreign STEM students. To be eligible, students must receive a doctorate at a U.S. institution and agree to work for at least five years for a U.S. employer in a designated field. Candidates with U.S. master’s degrees in science and technology will be eligible for the green cards once the pool of Ph.D. candidates has been exhausted.