1/ On Monday, US immigration officials are renewing a rule to automatically extend work authorization in the case of agency processing delays.

This is good news!

But there’s a lot of progress that can be made outside government to help STEM experts at risk of losing status...🧵

New: Foreign-born workers make up an outsized share of the workforce in industries critical to economic and national security.

You simply cannot separate industrial policy success from skilled immigration reform.

Let’s dive into the numbers.

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Today, the window for capped H-1B registrations comes to a close & petitions registered by employers will be in a lottery this coming week.

Yet, the H-1B is failing to keep up with the needs of the American STEM ecosystem.

Fortunately, there are other tools available! 🧵

Are you a data-savvy person who wants to make it easier for talented people around the world to move to the United States?

Come work with the IFP high-skilled immigration team!

ifp.org/come-work-with…

The US is heavily dependent on immigrant STEM talent.

From a new NSF report:

Foreign-born workers make up 37% of the Science & Engineering workforce with a Master's and 43% of those with a PhD.

Immigration policy is critical to U.S. competitiveness and scientific leadership.
ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20243/…

Ho & Besiroglu's Law could be the new Moore's Law:

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