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Please note: On May 10, 2016, DHS replaced the 17-month STEM OPT extension with a new 24-month STEM OPT extension. All existing 17-month STEM OPT EADs will remain valid until the EAD expires, is terminated or revoked. For more information about the new STEM OPT rule, please visit the STEM OPT Hub.…

Time magazine reports that a major government program in Brazil is aiming to award 75,000 scholarships to attend the world’s top universities in a program called “Science Without Borders.” The scholarships will be available only to Brazilians studying subjects of “strategic…

In the past four years, the University of Iowa has quadrupled the number of international students enrolled at its university, according to an article in The Gazette.  As a result, international students “have brought in about $33 million in tuition alone since 2007” and…

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created the Study in the States Initiative to streamline the international student visa process for foreign students seeking to study in the United States. In the week following the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s launch…