Foreign Grad Work Program Avoids Appeals Court’s Second Look (1)

A group advocating for US-born tech workers who brought a legal challenge to a temporary employment program for foreign graduates of US colleges lost a bid for the full D.C. Circuit to review the case.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in October affirmed a district court’s ruling that establishing the Optional Practical Training program was a “reasonable interpretation” of the law authorizing F-1 student visas. The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers argued that OPT displaced US tech workers and that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t have the legal authority ...