Optional Practical Training

MAGA politician writes to White House for ending OPT, says it avoids H-1B restrictions: ‘Allows aliens to overstay…’

MAGA politician and Representative Paul Gosar (Arizona) has written a letter to the White House to curb the OPT (Optional Practical Training) program. He has called the program “badly flawed” and said that it should be eliminated. In his letter, Gosar said that the Trump administration “should not be incentivizing foreign employees over Americans.”Writing to […]

Americans never asked for it: Missouri senator calls for termination of OPT, says it’s ‘cheap labor pipeline’

Amid the ongoing H-1B row, Missouri senator Eric Schmitt called the Optional Practical Training program a cheap labor pipeline for big business and urged the administration to either scrap it or to reform it so that it does not continue to deprive American graduates. OPT is a work authorization given to international students who are […]

OPT under fire: Trump’s USCIS nominee seeks to end postgrad work

Joseph Edlow, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee for the post of the director at US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in a recent nomination hearing said he wants to end post-graduation optional practical training (OPT) that is available to international students.A one-year OPT is available to international students, which is extended by another two […]

Priya Saxena: Federal court protects Indian student Priya Saxena in US from deportation over minor traffic violation

Federal court protects Indian student Priya Saxena in US from deportation over minor traffic violation (Picture credit: LinkedIn, X) A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction protecting Priya Saxena, a 28-year-old Indian student who recently completed her PhD in South Dakota, from deportation following the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) attempt to revoke her […]

Education association files lawsuit to halt unlawful termination of SEVIS records of international students

The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, a coalition of over 570 campus leaders, together with several impacted international students, has filed a lawsuit in a US district court (district of Massachusetts) on Thursday, challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) unlawful mass termination of SEVIS records for F-1 students and participants in the […]