[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 110 (Thursday, June 26, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H2997]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          STUDENT VISA PROCESS

  (Mr. SUBRAMANYAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SUBRAMANYAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise to talk about an issue that is 
hurting our country that we aren't talking about enough, and that is 
the uncertainty of this administration's student visa process.
  We have students doing groundbreaking research that are being forced 
to leave the country, students that last academic year contributed $43 
billion to the U.S. economy. The administration is trying to prevent 
institutions from enrolling top international students altogether.
  The United States has welcomed international students for decades. 
Some of them include world leaders, founders of billion-dollar 
companies here, and over 40 percent of the founders of the American 
leading AI companies, just as a few examples.
  We are shooting ourselves in the foot. Instead, why don't we go back 
to being a place that welcomes students to dream big and conduct 
groundbreaking research no matter where they are coming from?
  Why don't we become a place that unites people of all backgrounds and 
welcomes the best and brightest? That is something that makes our 
country great.

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