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发帖数: 120 | 1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Marisa Kaufman
September 18, 2012
SCHUMER: NY’S BOOMING TECH INDUSTRIES FACE SHORTAGE OF
HIGHLY-QUALIFIED ENGINEERS; INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO KEEP THE BEST
AND BRIGHTEST IN THE U.S. TO FUEL VITAL INDUSTRY, CREATE MORE JOBS AND
BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH
Current Immigration Policy Encourages Foreign Students With Advanced
Degrees To Move Home, Despite Shortage of Engineers in U.S.
“BRAINS Act” Would Make It Easier For The Most Talented Foreign
Students To Stay In U.S. After Graduation And Fill High-Tech Jobs
Vital To Emerging Start-ups and Tech Giants In And Around NY’s Silicon
Alley
Legislation Will Particularly Benefit New York, Long a Magnet For
Immigrants and Home To Quickly-Growing Tech Industry
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today, joined by rising stars of New
York’s tech industry at the New York General Assembly, unveiled
legislation to reform the U.S. visa system to encourage the world’s
best and brightest to stay in the United States after receiving their
graduate degrees in the science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) fields. The “BRAINS Act” would fix a long-existing problem in
our visa system that, despite a growing shortage of highly-skilled
tech workers based in the United States, forces many of the world’s
brightest students to return to their country of origin, taking with
them any economic growth and jobs that they might create. A recent
Center for an Urban Future report on the New York City tech industry
identified broken immigration laws and the shortage of engineers as
the top challenge to New York industry’s growth.
The legislation creates a pilot program through which 55,000 new green
cards per-year will be available for foreign students who graduate
from U.S. universities with advanced-degrees in STEM fields. It also
reduces the red tape to obtain a student visa, and allows high-tech
workers currently in the United States on temporary visas to renew
their visas without first returning to their country of origin.
“It makes no sense that America is educating the world’s smartest and
most talented students and then, once they are at their full potential
and mastered their craft, kicking them out the door,” said Schumer.
“We should be encouraging every brilliant and well-educated immigrant
to stay here, build a business here, create wealth here, employ people
here, and grow our economy. Fixing our broken green card system will
help ensure that the next eBay, the next Google, the next Intel will
be started in New York City, not in Shanghai or Bangalore or London.”
“The BRAINS Act will provide a critical boost to the economy,” said
Jonathan Bowles, Executive Director of the Center for an Urban Future
and co-author of “New Tech City.” “Right now, the single biggest
obstacle to the continued growth of the tech sector in New York and
the U.S. is the lack of skilled engineers and programmers. It will be
years before our higher education system produces the pipeline of
science and tech workers that's sufficient to meet the demand. Until
then, the only answer is to make it easier for the top engineers,
programmers and scientists from overseas to come and stay here.
Senator Schumer's bill will make that possible.”
Current immigration policy encourages foreign students to study and
get their degrees from America’s top universities, but discourages
foreign students from remaining in the United States and starting new
companies in America. Schumer noted that those students who wish to
make America their permanent home must compete for very limited H1-B
temporary visas that make it difficult to change jobs, earn a
promotion, or travel abroad; or they must eventually give up and
return home, wasting what is often up to a decade of educational
investment by our American schools.
Schumer said that New York in particular stands to benefit from the
legislation since it is not only a long-time magnet for the world’s
smartest and most driven immigrants, but is also the sight of a
booming tech industry badly in need of well-trained employees. In
fact, a recent report from the Center for an Urban Future on the New
York City tech industry suggested that current immigration laws and a
shortage of engineers are the top challenges to New York industry’s
growth. “New Tech City,” a study conducted by the Center for an Urban
Future, concluded that New York’s technology industry is growing
faster than anywhere else in America with over 400 technology
companies that have been founded in the city since 2007. Schumer made
the case that as a technology hub, New York would particularly benefit
from this legislation and continue to create and fill more high-tech
jobs vital to emerging start-ups and technology giants in and around
Silicon Alley.
Overview of the Benefits to Research and American Innovation through
Nationality Statutes Act of 2012 (‘‘BRAINS Act’’)
The BRAINS Act will finally provide the much-needed reform to our
high-skilled immigration system that America needs to ensure that the
industries of the 21st century take root here in the United States.
It will accomplish this goal in the following ways:
It creates a 2-year pilot program to provide 55,000 new green cards
per-year for foreign students who graduate from U.S. universities with
advanced-degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(“STEM”).
To be eligible, an alien must 1) have received a master’s degree or
higher from an eligible U.S. university in science, technology,
engineering, or mathematics; 2) have an offer of employment in the
U.S. in a STEM field, and 3) be petitioned for by an employer who has
gone through labor certification to show that there are not sufficient
American workers able, willing, equally qualified and available for
the job at the wage level paid by the employer to all other
individuals with similar experience and qualifications for the job.
To be eligible for its students to receive green cards, a university
must be: 1) accredited; 2) at least 10 years old; and 3) classified as
a research institution by the Director of the National Science
Foundation. The school cannot provide incentive payments to persons
based on securing foreign students for the university.
4. It encourages the best and brightest foreign students to
study, live, and work in the United States by allowing them to receive
student visas to attend our colleges and universities to study in STEM
fields. STEM students will no longer be required to demonstrate that
they have no desire to stay permanently in the U.S. as a precondition
to being allowed to attend school here.
5. It provides any unused green cards from this program to be
used to reduce the backlog for employment-based green cards that
exists for highly-skilled STEM advanced-degree graduates from foreign
universities.
6. It allows temporary workers on high-skilled visas who have not
violated their status to renew their visas from within the United
States.
7. It provides labor protections to ensure that foreign workers do
not take high-paying high-skilled jobs that American workers are
available to fill.
8. It codifies the practice that the priority date (for
determining an alien’s place in line) for an employer’s green card
petition is the date that the employer files the labor certification
application. The bill also ensures that an alien who switches from
one green card family-preference category to another retains their
original priority date, and that an alien who switches from one green
card employer-preference category to another retains their original
priority date.
9. It expands “age-out” protection in current law to benefit
minor children who turn 21 while they wait for their green cards to
become available.
10. It encourages highly skilled workers to remain in the United
States by providing for faster reunification with their spouses and
minor children. This is done by creating a new entry slot for a
nuclear family member of a highly-skilled permanent resident when a
lawful permanent resident is deported. Consequently, net immigration
is not increased, but family reunification is expedited. | l**h
发帖数: 893 | 2 都是作秀和扯淡
都几月份了，还指望过什么移民法案
【在 h*****u 的大作中提到】
: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Marisa Kaufman
: September 18, 2012
:
: SCHUMER: NY’S BOOMING TECH INDUSTRIES FACE SHORTAGE OF
: HIGHLY-QUALIFIED ENGINEERS; INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO KEEP THE BEST
: AND BRIGHTEST IN THE U.S. TO FUEL VITAL INDUSTRY, CREATE MORE JOBS AND
: BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH
: Current Immigration Policy Encourages Foreign Students With Advanced
: Degrees To Move Home, Despite Shortage of Engineers in U.S.
: “BRAINS Act” Would Make It Easier For The Most Talented Foreign
| d*********y
发帖数: 748 | 3 你是不是很无聊，贴这种垃圾草案来消遣大家？我可以告诉你，如果HR3012没戏，其他
所有的high tech bill 都没戏。
【在 h*****u 的大作中提到】
: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Marisa Kaufman
: September 18, 2012
:
: SCHUMER: NY’S BOOMING TECH INDUSTRIES FACE SHORTAGE OF
: HIGHLY-QUALIFIED ENGINEERS; INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO KEEP THE BEST
: AND BRIGHTEST IN THE U.S. TO FUEL VITAL INDUSTRY, CREATE MORE JOBS AND
: BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH
: Current Immigration Policy Encourages Foreign Students With Advanced
: Degrees To Move Home, Despite Shortage of Engineers in U.S.
: “BRAINS Act” Would Make It Easier For The Most Talented Foreign
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