Senators Urge Ending International Student Visa Program Visa Restrictions Limit Immigrant Doctors in COVID-19 Fight China Threatens Countermeasures over US Visa Rule for Chinese Journalists Suspend Optional Practical Training (OPT) Work Permit Proposal Posted By: Admin March 14, 2014 Imagine how would it be if there would be no work permit as soon as you graduate from your masters or Ph.D from a U.S. Grad School. Students may apply for a pre-study completion OPT, allowing them to work part time (20 hours or less per week) while school is in session, and full time when school is not in session. Four U.S. senators called for the suspension of postgraduate Optional Practical Training (OPT) in a recent letter to the White House. “I think that the number may change based on what our institutions start seeing for the fall in regards to applications and deposits. This comes as the US government considers further immigration restrictions to manage the devastating impact of COVID-19. You're harming consumers who are trying to go out and buy things that they would need, which, you know, interrupts the virtuous cycle of supply and demand in the economy.
"International students contribute nearly $41 billion a year to the U.S. economy.
Tom Cotton, R-Ark; Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; and Josh Hawley, R-Miss, wrote a David Bier, immigration policy analyst at CATO Institute, disputes this assessment.
“You know like buying groceries, going to restaurants, renting apartments, buying cars, and all the things that they do while they're here in the U.S.,” she said. The Optional Practical Training program has been called an engine of the economy, a job creator not only for foreign nationals but for domestic workers as well.
To date, the government is continuing to process OPT applications, and no changes have been made to the program. The program, known as Optional Practical Training, or OPT, is an incentive for foreign students to come to U.S. universities, as it provides some cushion between school and employment. School’s back in session for the 15-year-old Georgia high-schooler who received a five-day suspension for tweeting a video of a crowded hallway in which many students are seen without masks. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Get breaking news and insider analysis on the rapidly changing world of media and technology right to your inbox.Women walk into the visa application section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in May 2013. Approximately Providing options to stay and work in the country after graduation is critical for retaining U.S. educated graduates, and for attracting future students, as well. As countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, China and Australia bolster immigration policies to attract and retain international students, the last thing our nation should do in this area is make ourselves less competitive by weakening OPT.
Cotton, Cruz, Grassley and Hawley said in the letter that Americans “share the hope that our economic recovery will be swift, with Americans returning to work in massive numbers as soon as it is safe to do so.
OPT Student Work Program Optional Practical training is under a deep threat as these are freshers graduating from college and Senators claim that banning OPT can effectively help American students to get jobs quickly. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) And this is what I found from NYTimes.com Sarah Spreitzer, government relations director at the American Council on Education, said they are already expecting a 25% drop in international student enrollment.
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