The Optional Practical Training (OPT) US immigration program, which allows international students to remain in the US for up to three years to work after they graduate, has survived a legal challenge over its extension. However, the labor union that filed the lawsuit is set to appeal the ruling.
US District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, Reggie B. Walton ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had not overstepped its authority when expanding the OPT program, despite labor union, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), claiming that it had.
Nearly 250,000 people participate in the OPT scheme. The standard OPT scheme allows a post graduate to work in the US for 12 months while the STEM OPT programme allows international students who earn a degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics to remain in America for up to three years.
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A U.S. District Court judge issued an opinion last week upholding a program important to many in higher education that allows international students to stay and work in the U.S. after they graduate in a field related to their area of study.
Nearly a quarter million people participate in the optional practical training program, or OPT, which allows international students to work in the U.S. for up to three years after graduating while staying on their student visas. The regular OPT program provides for one year of postgraduation work authorization, while the STEM OPT extension enables graduates who earned degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields to stay for an additional two years.
San Francisco s tech workers are bugging out, escaping the high costs, cramped spaces, and California regulations for friendlier environs in Austin, Texas, and Miami, Florida, among other places.
Silicon Valley Asian Pacific American Democratic Club (Facebook)
Brenda Walker’s blog
California Bay Area: Asians Are Now the Majority of Tech Workers mentions age discrimination but does not refer to the other more pernicious discrimination: anti-white bias by Asians in hiring positions in Silicon Valley. I say more pernicious because by preventing entry by young whites into their fields these Asian conquerors will be able to achieve permanent ownership.
One of the most vivid expositions of High Tech ethnocentricity appeared in the comment thread of a blog by an old friend -
At 4:16PM Anonymous said:
Once the Hindu-Indians take over the whole IT department (Hindu only IT ghetto), the following series of events takes place-
21 Jan 2021 | News
Biden vows immigration reform to attract top talent to the US
New President’s plans could make visas easier for foreign students and tech-industry workers – but it will be a long battle in Congress, and the debate is already underway
In one of his first acts, US President Joe Biden began a sweeping overhaul of US immigration law that – if approved by Congress – would make it easier for researchers, engineers and science students to come to the US.
By executive order, Biden immediately dismantled his predecessor’s ban on US travel for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. While affecting all kinds of travelers from those countries, in the research and tech sectors it had disrupted some collaborative research projects, and interrupted the flow of international students and tech workers. In a statement, the new administration called the ban “inconsistent with American values.”