Reuters reports that Biden plans to make a new effort to retain international science and tech students in the United States. Biden plans new effort to retain international science and tech students, according to Reuters.

Before a meeting with his Infrastructure Implementation Task Force, in the Cabinet Room at the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to reporters on the situation in Ukraine.
The Biden administration plans to unveil new steps on Friday to retain international students who specialize in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as part of its effort to retain these students to compete with China, officials said.
The measures will allow specialists in STEM fields to use cultural-exchange visas to stay for up to 3 years to receive training.
A program that will allow those on student visas to stay for an extended period of training in areas such as data science, cloud computing and data visualization will also be expanded.
"Other countries, most notably China, are using STEM talent to try to supplant the United States as the world's foremost scientific and technological innovator," one of the officials said in a briefing with reporters.
The number of undergraduates and doctoral students in the fields critical to economic growth is now far greater in China than in the United States, which long had many of the world's top research universities, an official said.
The United States has hosted about a million international college students, more than any other nation, but their number has fallen in recent years, according to the Institute of International Education.
A Georgetown University study projected that China will produce 77,000 graduates in STEM fields by 2025, versus 40,000 in the United States. The study also projected that the number of foreign students in the United States will make up a large share of the STEM graduates.
President Joe Biden has said he regards the country's top national security challenge as competition with China.
The new steps, which do not require congressional action, come as Biden's legislative strategy for tackling both legal and illegal immigration has stalled. A major immigration proposal he made in his first days in office has gone nowhere in Congress.
Immigration policy in Biden's first year in office has instead been dominated by a massive resettlement of Afghan refugees, record-breaking border arrests, unfavorable court decisions, Republican opposition in Congress and internal divisions between liberals and moderates in the administration. This has led to a number of policy changes, including a decrease in the number of refugees allowed into the country.
The new initiatives will help make it easier for immigrants to argue that they qualify for special visas reserved for those with extraordinary ability.
The White House said in a fact sheet that the policy change is consistent with its "priorities to restore faith in the legal immigration system."