• Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    Hey idiot… It’s called a student visa and all of the people I know who were here on one got their green cards shortly after graduating. That’s not some new genius idea… It’s how the system is meant to work…

    • cornshark@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      Student visas just let students be in the US and have no path to green card.

      The paths to green card I’m aware of are being a family member to a citizen, being sponsored by your employer, the diversity visa and the job creation green card.

      It sounds to me like he is proposing to skip the whole second paragraph?

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      5 months ago

      We have a young person here on student visa and he’s struggling to get a more persistent arrangement and thinks he may have to move back next year when his visa is done. He’s hoping for an h1b, but that’s a lottery… If there’s something he’s missing, it’d be good to know.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      5 months ago

      That’s not how it worked for any of the people I knew on student visas. All of them had to hope for a job with a company that would support getting them an H1b/EB2/EB3 visa. Trump has been pushing to raise the limits on H1B visas since before the 2016 election, and it’s one policy idea of his I (think I) agree with. One of the reasons so many foreign students stay on for grad school is because it allows them to stay on a student visa if they can’t get supported by a company.

      There are 5 ways to go from a student visa to a green card: marrying a US citizen, employee sponsorship (H1b/EB2/EB3), the green card lottery, political asylum, get sponsored by a relative who owns a US company. There is also a 6th way that doesn’t require a student visa, the EB1, but that requires being a recognized leader in your field.

    • Revonult@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      5 months ago

      My friends getting their PhDs had a really hard time getting theirs and almost had to leave the country.