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 detai…
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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 Pra…
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 unsup…
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 tou…
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,…
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 nonimmi…
Less than two weeks after it created, a federal office tasked to track a fraud-ridden foreign student work program has been closed. The Optional Practical Training (OPT) Employment Compliance Unit was set up Jan. 13 with orders to report on the duties,…
Some of the loudest cheers at Joe Biden’s inauguration came from America’s colleges and universities. After four years of playing defense, higher education sees itself back on offense. “The last four years have been a real grind, and we are looking for…
On July 6, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that foreign students studying in the United States on F-1 and M-1 visas would not be able to remain in the United States if their courses were entirely online for the fall 2020 semest…
On Monday, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released new guidance that will prohibit foreign students from attending U.S. colleges or universities if those institutions are offering an entirely online course load. The reactions, however, from…