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Connecting Our World is the advocacy home of NAFSA: Association of International Educators and its more than 10,000 members worldwide. We believe that international education—connecting students, scholars, educators, and citizens across borders—is fundamental to advancing peace, security, and well-being.

Urge Your Representative to Support Optional Practical Training

The Keep Innovators in America Act represents a critical step forward in the effort to protect from elimination a program that benefits the U.S. economy, domestic workforce, and international students seeking a full academic experience in this country. Urge your representative to cosponsor this bipartisan legislation.

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Urge Congress to Pass the Keep STEM Talent Act

The administration’s recent actions against international students and scholars threaten to drive away the next generation of global leaders, innovators, and allies. Urge your members of Congress to support the Keep STEM Talent Act, to enable the United States to compete for global talent. 

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Urge Congress to Restore and Sustain Funding for International Education and Exchange Programs

The United States’ national security, economic competitiveness, and global leadership are all advanced by the international education and exchange programs of the Departments of State and Education. Urge your members of Congress to fully fund the vital programs of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs at the Department of Education.

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