Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential candidate for the U.S. calls for stapling Green Cards for those who would pursue advanced degree graduation in the U.S. This plan has already been proposed by law makers on the two sides, but hasn’t been successful. As of today, a person has to wait for at least two to three years to get their green card approved, when filed in EB2 category.

How does it benefit foreign US graduates?

Romney ultimately believes he would get his plan moving and prove its success. This shall be a huge advantage for any student who would pursue M.S or M.B.A in the U.S. Romney promisingly mentions about 1.25 million high-skill job vacancies in United States and he proposes well-qualified immigrants could help fill these positions. Filling these positions would not displace the unemployed Americans, but would rather improve the U.S. economy as per the former Massachusetts governor and the current presidential contestant, Romney.

Romney mentions in one of his speech regarding Immigration and Border Security that he would want more legal immigration into America and he favors having them come permanently to the U.S., rather than come and go.

Another note-worthy proposal from Romney includes “to raise the ceiling” on visas for the advanced degree holders in Math and Science,” who have job offers in those fields from U.S. companies.” The current allowance for the H1-B quota for high-skilled workers is 85,000, which has been dropped from 195,000 (as of 2001). Current policies set 20,000 aside for Masters Students. This year’s (2012) H1-B quota has been filled very quickly within three months which definitely created trouble for those who wanted to apply H1-B gradually in the coming months. Let`s hope that this policy will get approved and decrease the brain drain of foreign US graduates to their home countries. This policy will make sure to retain the highly skilled workers in US to improve the US economy.