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The OPT Program Should Be Abolished

Jason Pena — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 23:16:36 +0000

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently released its annual report on the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). The report – which gathered its data from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System – gives details of the international student population across the U.S. for the calendar year 2021. The SEVP report provides insight into how [...]

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Following the ‘Science,’ DHS Opens More Jobs to Foreign Students

Bob Dane — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:09:22 +0000

The largest guest-worker program in America’s immigration system is getting bigger. Skirting regulatory processes, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last month that even more jobs will be open to foreign nationals through Optional Practical Training (OPT). Expanding the subsidized student employment program is a lose-lose proposition that further disadvantages U.S. workers and comes [...]

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Biden OPTs to Keep Cheap Labor Scheme Going Unchecked

Bob Dane — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:42:36 +0000

A fraud-prone employment program involving nearly a half-million foreign students is enjoying a free ride these days. Days after taking office, President Joe Biden aborted efforts to step up regulation of the government’s little known and largely unsupervised Optional Practical Training (OPT) system. No enforcement actions have been reported since October 2020, when the Department [...]

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Universities Want More Chinese – Not American – Students

Preston Huennekens — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:55:23 +0000

The Wall Street Journal reported that major American universities are complaining about the lack of Chinese students currently enrolled in the United States. The universities complain that “dominance in science and technology could be undermined by toughened U.S. visa requirements that are squeezing the flow of talent from China,” our chief geopolitical adversary. The universities [...]

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Youngest Member of Congress Introduces Immigration Bill to Protect Recent Graduates

Preston Huennekens — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:33:47 +0000

Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) recently introduced the Responsible Practical Training Act, a bill that aims to reform the controversial and FAIR-opposed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. A part of the larger F-1 student visa program, OPT permits F-1 graduates to extend their stay in the United States by working for 1-2 years following their graduation. [...]

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Do U.S. Universities Need Students from China?

Preston Huennekens — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:17:54 +0000

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic former President Donald Trump wisely paused the admissions of many forms of nonimmigrant visas – notably guestworkers (H-1B, H-2B, etc.), but also student visas. Proclamation 9993 barred the entry of nonimmigrants from countries with high levels of COVID-19 – including those from China. On April 27, Secretary of [...]

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