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Posted on 10/16/2025 7:09:29 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A growing push in the US to curtail OPT and tax or restrict foreign student work is rattling Indian students. Policy shifts, surprise site visits and H-1B fee changes are shrinking the post-study path in the US.
When students finish degrees in the US, they often rely on Optional Practical Training (OPT) to transition from F1 student visas to H1-B work visas and build a career in the US. That safety net is now increasingly under threat.
Senator Tom Cotton’s OPT Fair Tax Act was already spelling trouble. Now, Senator Chuck Grassley and others are urging DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to stop issuing work authorisations to student visa holders — arguing, among other things, that such permissions “compete against Americans” and pose security risks.
These, along with changes in H-1B rules and tightening enforcement, which show a growing sentiment in parts of Congress that OPT and related work rules should be narrowed or ended, have created a nerve-wracking climate for students who came to the US to study and hoped to stay and work.
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Given the difficulty that American citizen college graduates are having finding work, they may find informal optional practical training to be less than optional.
Employers tend to want experience.
...”have created a nerve-wracking climate for students who came to the US to study and hoped to stay and work.”
Stay in India...
India offers many opportunities.
Make every country a great country to live and work in.
This is quite the transformation you’ve undergone Marcus.
First, Zeeper propaganda posts 24/7/365
Now, Indian posts 24/7
You’re a tranny!
MIGA!
It’s an obsession with him
India hoes mad.
We need to end all visas until every last border jumper and over stayer has been deported. Wait another 5 years and then we’ll talk, maybe.
Pony up, marcus, you freeploading deadbeat.
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Saw a hilarious YouTube cartoon where someone is applying for an entry level job and the interviewer keeps asking how much experience he has doiing that job.
Yep. There are 750,000 H1Bs. There are over 400,000 OPTs. Now we need to radically slash or eliminate those as well. That’s a lot of work/jobs that have been stolen from American workers.
That doesn’t include the dependents and anchor babies, either.
I was born with a full set of permanent teeth.
Don’t forget the 2-for-1 H1B + H4. And... throw the L1 into the mix.
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