India’s US education boom: How America is cutting off its own talent feed

India’s US education boom has been built on a quiet assumption that OPT will give graduates time to work, earn, and attempt longer-term visas. Now that bridge is being recast in Washington as a loophole followed by proposals that could cut, tax, or time-limit the post-study runway. For Indian students and families, the risk is obvious: Degree stays costly, but the payoff window shrinks.