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US Opens Doors to Good Ideas, No Matter Where They're From
Instead of deporting immigrants with good ideas, the U.S. government is opening its doors a little wider to foreign entrepreneurs in hopes of boosting a weak economy.
Under past immigration policy, in order to obtain a green card, foreign workers had to first secure a job offer at an established company. But a new administrative ruling aimed at boosting America’s weak economy takes a different approach. Rather than finding a job offer, foreign entrepreneurs wishing to live in America need only prove that their business start up “will be in the U.S. national interest,” says the Wall Street Journal.
Alejandro Mayorkas, chief of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, changed the policy after concluding that many people were earning degrees with a U.S. student visa, but starting up companies and creating job opportunities elsewhere due to the lack of work visas available here.
The relaxation of requirements could shift immigration policy away from only allowing in the highly educated and well off, opening the doors to anyone, regardless of background—as long as they have a business plan.
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