Dear sojodude: How credibility is there for you being sojodude, as your name suggest. In fact, I did not try to blame that guy who posted that post titled "Stupid Criminal": however, I feel pity on him, the way he comprehend the whole situation. Well, I don't give a dang about the enlisted criteria like whether Vivek applied for work permit, whether he was in a full time F-1 status or whether he inquired his problem to so called International Student Advisor, or he got scholarships or in a good academic standing. To tell you the truth, almost all (exception are always there...), most of the Nepali Students who come to the United States of America for further studies, they all were in pretty good on their academic standing. Getting average score on SAT, TOEFL, GRE is not a joke. In fact, I am proud of all those Nepalese Students on overseas, who are, despite so meager opportunities and resources, try to do their best. I totally agree with you about your statement of average american getting pissed off just seeing his job taken away by some immigrant or non-immigrant workers. Been there-Done that. But the question is - this is the land of opportunity and not to mention, those who are claiming the citizens of USA now were once immgrant, directly or indirectly. I think, to my opinion, the main reason behind that resentment of immigrant worker taking their job is that most of the highly paid jobs,now a days, on science and technology, IT, and may areas are invaded by foreign workers, and perhaps that is the reason. One question to sojodude- do you know the average salary per nepalese??? How about the GDP??? It is a kind of "Don't Tell- Don't Hear" situation ....... So having this statistics of our country, including many other countries, why in the first place they accepted us- forget about the commitment of foreign students to pay their tuition.... And I am sure an average american also get a student loan for their further education in colleges or universities, and the funny thing is their parents do not support on their children's education. Well, good discussion, thanks for joining me... RSVP