OPT – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com The Official Blog of FAIR Tue, 12 Apr 2022 23:18:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 https://www.immigrationreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-IR-Favicon-100x100.png OPT – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com 32 32 The OPT Program Should Be Abolished https://www.immigrationreform.com/2022/04/12/opt-should-be-ended-immigrationreform-com/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 23:16:36 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=25550 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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]]> The Notorious OPT Program Can’t Be Mended, So It Must Be Ended https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/10/23/the-notorious-opt-program-cant-be-mended-so-it-must-be-ended/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:52:00 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=23789 At an October 21 press conference, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials announced the arrest of 15 foreign student-workers for fraudulently claiming to be working for companies that did not exist. In addition, as many as 1,100 foreign nationals participating in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program either will have their permits revoked or not [...]

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]]> Bloomberg: Foreign Workers Need Jobs in U.S. Despite Record American Unemployment https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/19/opt-foreign-students-bad-deal-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/19/opt-foreign-students-bad-deal-immigrationreform-com/#comments Tue, 19 May 2020 19:13:20 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=22984 A recent Bloomberg article misses the mark when it laments the fact that “science and math grads from overseas are seeing their job offers withdrawn and could lose access to U.S. visa programs that feed big tech companies.” The piece begins by highlighting an anecdotal story of a foreign student studying in the United States. [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/19/opt-foreign-students-bad-deal-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 1 Bad OPTics: Time’s Up for Foreign Training Subsidies https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/03/12/bad-optics-times-foreign-training-subsidies/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/03/12/bad-optics-times-foreign-training-subsidies/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:57:07 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=16630 The Trump administration looking to rework or end a program that benefits foreign students and hurts American taxpayers.

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/03/12/bad-optics-times-foreign-training-subsidies/feed/ 8 Tech Firms Set to Benefit from New Rule https://www.immigrationreform.com/2015/10/29/tech-firms-set-to-benefit-from-new-rule/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2015/10/29/tech-firms-set-to-benefit-from-new-rule/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:44:43 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=10677 “Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Department has just ramped up its assault on the American middle class. In response to lobbying pressure from the trillion-dollar technology industry, this week DHS announced a new regulation that will dramatically expand the number of foreign STEM-degree (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) holders allowed to work in the tech industry. This [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2015/10/29/tech-firms-set-to-benefit-from-new-rule/feed/ 3 Federal Court Rules in Favor of American Workers https://www.immigrationreform.com/2015/08/13/federal-court-rules-worker-visa-challenge/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2015/08/13/federal-court-rules-worker-visa-challenge/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:18:00 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=9807 “Today (August 12th), the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of an American tech workers union that brought a lawsuit challenging a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulation that permits non-student foreign labor to compete with American workers. The court struck the rule, finding that DHS did not comply [...]

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