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Today, our lawmakers failed the American people, including the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented people, who are American in every way except birth. This inaction is appalling and it endangers our nation.
Immigration | Press ReleasesThe Association of American Universities (AAU) and The Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) sent a letter to appropriators in both the House and Senate urging Congress to fund the National Science Foundation (NSF) at $8 billion for FY18.
Agency Budgets | Federal Budget | FY18 | National Science Foundation | LettersCoalition for National Security Research (CNSR), of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to House and Senate appropriators urging Congress to robustly fund the Department of Defense science and technology program for FY18.
Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | Department of Defense | FY18 | LettersAAU joined ACE and over three dozen higher education organizations in a letter to party leadership thanking them for "the commitment to student aid and scientific research in the Fiscal Year 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act."
Federal Budget | FY18 | LettersThis provides a brief outline of the major classes of visas utilized by universities and the processes USCIS uses to grant the visas.
Immigration | Fact SheetsH-1B visas are non-immigrant visas for temporary "professional specialty workers," an employment category closely associated with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, but not limited to them.
Immigration | Fact SheetsThe Optional Practical Training (OPT) program is an extension of the F-1 student visa that provides 12 months of work authorization for foreign nationals who graduated from a U.S. university. Employment must be related to a student's major area of study.
Immigration | Fact SheetsJ-1 are non-immigrant, temporary visas available for exchange visitors participating in a work-and-study-based program in the U.S. In higher education, J-1 visas are used by universities to sponsor visiting scholars from abroad. For many universities, J-1 is the primary visa used for postdocs and…
Immigration | Fact SheetsThirty-two higher education organizations, including the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the American Council on Education (ACE), submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the higher education community examining President Trump's third travel ban.
Immigration | Legal BriefThis document summarizes the FY18 Omnibus funding bill for federal agencies and programs of interest to research universities.
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