The speed and scope of the federal government’s efforts to terminate the legal status of international students have stunned ...

A bill targeting the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, a pathway for international students to gain US work experience, has sparked concern, ...

Proposed legislation to eliminate OPT work permits could disrupt careers of Indian students and impact US economy.

According to Insider Higher Ed, over 180 colleges and universities have identified nearly 1,200 international students and ...

The OPT or Optional Practical Training (OPT) programme allows international students, having an F-1 visa, to stay and work in the United States for one year after they graduate. While students ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). OPT enables students to gain work experience in their field of study. 12 months of OPT is available for F-1 students. OPT may be used before or after ...

A proposed bill in the US Congress is threatening to upend the Optional Practical Training program A proposed bill in the United States Congress is threatening to upend the Optional Practical ...

One of the students is recent UAA graduate Jean Kashikov, who’s originally from Kazakhstan and had been working as a flight ...

The federal government terminated the visas of two Duke graduate students and an alumnus on Optional Practical Training, according to a Monday morning email sent to international students.

This follows the introduction of a bill in Congress aimed at removing the Optional Practical Training (OPT) work authorisation, which currently permits them to stay in the US for up to three years ...