Trump administration probes nine top universities over alleged J-1 visa misuse for postdocs
The Trump administration announced an investigation into nine universities for alleged misuse of J-1 visas that support postdoctoral researchers.
The schools named include Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Caltech, Arizona State University, MIT, the University of Pittsburgh and UC Davis. Officials say the institutions are using the visas to bring in cheap labor and to undercut wages of American graduate students and researchers.
The probe by the Department of Labor could impact the biomedical workforce, where many postdocs in pharma and biotech rely on J-1 visas, though no further details were provided.
This writeup was produced by pharmadog from original reporting by STAT.
Original headline: “Trump administration investigates 9 universities for alleged visa fraud”
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