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Recently,I had lunch with a young Chinese student who studies at a college in New York.He is very bright and aspiring and I enjoyed our conversation.Still I felt frustrated and useless afterwards because I was not able to provide him with any good news.Graduating at the end of this year,he asked me how he could find a job in this country and fulfill his career dreams.
In recent years,students who found a job here after graduation have had to go through a cruel lottery system to obtain their HIB working visa.And the success rates have been declining year after year because of the ever growing number of applicants.Last year,there were 233,000 applicants, and only 30 percent of them were lucky,less than half of the rate in 2013.
And it can only become worse.US President Donald Trump's immigration policies in this country are tightening up and this trend will continue for at least the next few years.In this case,foreign students studying social sciences,a field in which starting salaries are rarely above the required amount,can kiss their visa hopes goodbye.
Compared to the older generation of Chinese students,today's young people no longer consider the US as th