When foreign-born applicants who want to work in the United States face red tape and long delays, new “talent visas” in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and elsewhere lure them away.
Bayrak quickly learned, however, that to come to the United States, she would need an employer sponsor. Even then, she would have to enter a lottery for an H-1B visa, with only 1-in-4 odds of being approved. If she was laid off, she would have 60 days to find a new job, or she would probably have to leave.Bayrak was recounting her story over a pint in a pub in London, where she now lives thanks in part to a U.K.
Most international students in the United States say they want to remain, and U.S. employers need workers like them to fill jobs in areas of shortage. But only 11 percent of foreign-born U.S. university bachelor’s degree recipients and 23 percent who get master’s degreesInternational college enrollment ticks back up after pandemic
Rollason said that, at this time of year, his firm is regularly contacted by international students who have just graduated from American universities but are still waiting for an OPT visa or can’t get a visa through the H-1B lottery. So they have decided to move to the United Kingdom.“Why wouldn’t you want people who graduate from Harvard or Stanford or MIT?” Rollason asked mirthfully.
Over the longer term, however, “the question is: As these other countries start to take the race for talent more seriously, will that dynamic shift?” said Kate Hooper, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. Whether or not the new visas attract large numbers of highly skilled immigrants, they “do serve a function in terms of staking a claim in this contest for talent,” Hooper said. “There’s a sort of marketing element that signals you’re open to talent.
“We don’t have the necessary talent within the U.S.” to do these jobs, she said. “But we don’t have the visas required to onshore the people who can.” Now “other countries are jumping at the opportunity to take our graduates.”
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