visas (Score 1)

In 18 years as a professor I haven't had a SINGLE non-US citizen Ph.D. student who has NOT stayed in the US. Many of my former students are working for companies whose first response is "we don't hire without a green card." I don't have a problem with it. If there were enough interest by US citizens in graduate study we wouldn't get predominantly non-US applicants. How do they do it? I don't know. I would encourage students to use the grapevine-check with recent graduates that have been in the same position. (old) white guy