OPT allows all aliens on student visas to work for a year after graduation.
As a practical matter, OPT can only function as a guestworker program for STEM fields.
Universities have been working overtime to reclassify non-STEM degrees as STEM in order to take advantage of the longer OPT duration.
As if the chaos at the border is not enough, the Biden administration has decided to expand the OPT program to invite even more foreign labor, as my colleague David North noted recently.
The OPT regulations say that STEM is defined by another document that lists eligible fields.
You can bet that these changes to OPT were presented to DHS by lobbyists, as is typical in the administrative process.
Then DHS worked in secret to make the changes-the same way STEM OPT was created in the first place.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
The Biden administration expands OPT without bothering with the regulatory process
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