Foreign Student Training Program Survives Court Challenge (1)

A federal appeals court denied a bid from US technology workers to scrap a temporary employment program for foreign graduates of US colleges and universities.

In litigation spanning more than a decade, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers argued that the Department of Homeland Security lacked authority to establish the program, known as Optional Practical Training. They also said US workers were being displaced by increased competition from foreign workers participating in the program.

But the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s ruling in late 2020 that the training program ...