AAU joined ACE and 17 other higher education associations on a letter to the DHS requesting it immediately withdraw its notice of proposed rulemaking, “Modification of Registration Requirement for Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions.” The letter outlines the enormous negative impact the rule would have on the nation’s colleges and universities, including: dramatically reducing access to the H-1B visa program for early-career professionals; prohibiting foreign-born doctors from obtaining H-1B visas; and discourages international student enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities. The associations also say that the rule may be “beyond the statutory language and congressional intent included under the Immigration and Nationality Act.” International students are “a central reason for the excellence of [the nation’s] postsecondary institutions,” the associations say, and “it is especially important for [these] international students to be educated at U.S. colleges and universities.”