Reposted by Nancy Cappola
I have some very intelligent Indian friends who are in OPT.
Some 420,000, or roughly one-third, of international students participated in OPT in 2025–26, making it the largest pipeline of global talent into the US workforce.
This will hamper academic research.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work
Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say