Student Visa Process

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Mr. SUBRAMANYAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise to talk about an issue that is hurting our country that we aren't talking about enough, and that is the uncertainty of this administration's student visa process.

We have students doing groundbreaking research that are being forced to leave the country, students that last academic year contributed $43 billion to the U.S. economy. The administration is trying to prevent institutions from enrolling top international students altogether.

The United States has welcomed international students for decades. Some of them include world leaders, founders of billion-dollar companies here, and over 40 percent of the founders of the American leading AI companies, just as a few examples.

We are shooting ourselves in the foot. Instead, why don't we go back to being a place that welcomes students to dream big and conduct groundbreaking research no matter where they are coming from?

Why don't we become a place that unites people of all backgrounds and welcomes the best and brightest? That is something that makes our country great.

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