top | item 13491664

(no title)

titomc | 9 years ago

Part deux: What Asian students go through once they get their degrees from American Universities.

They go down the rabbit hole of America's broken immigration system, starting with OPT visa, then H1B (read lottery luck, not based on skills) & then the country based quota for green card currently 7 to 9 years for EB2 categories for India & China. Did I forgot to mention the exorbitant out of state tuition fees and the loans they took for it in their home country ?

discuss

order

zumu|9 years ago

> Did I forgot to mention the exorbitant out of state tuition fees and the loans they took for it in their home country ?

I had a lot of close Chinese(PRC) friends in college, and most of them were extremely rich. I know it's anecdotal, but I find it hard to believe a lot of Chinese exchange students are going deep into debt to afford US schools. From what they describe, the student visa interview process favors financially sound students.

That being said, what you've said about the visa system rings painfully true.

wolfgke|9 years ago

The students characterized in this article come from rather prosperous families.

xyzzy4|9 years ago

You don't have to pay back loans if you don't return to your home country.

Flammy|9 years ago

The lenders are not idiots. I'm very sure they either are signed by their families or they have other ways of enforcing collection.