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In a letter to DHS, Sen. Eric Schmitt calls OPT a “cheap-labor pipeline” that disadvantages American workers and urges the administration to overhaul or terminate the program.

New U.S. visa rules restrict international students with limits on transfers, OPT stay, multiple degrees, and a four-year F-1 cap, reshaping study abroad plans.

An F-1 visa applicant was reportedly denied entry, allegedly due to 221(g) social media vetting scrutiny.

What U.S.-bound students and visitors need to know: After viral shoplifting arrest, experts warn — ‘One mistake can cost you everything’

As student visa interviews resume in India, applicants face not just long waits and sudden rejections, but a chilling message: silence and compliance may now be part of the American college experience.

Just weeks before his May 10 graduation, Krish Lal Isserdasani, 21, had his F-1 visa revoked on April 4

Student visa rejections for Indian students planning to study in the United States has reached a decade-high in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, with 41% of F-1 visas being rejected

New rule allows US employers to more quickly fill critical jobs; makes it easier for students on F-1 visa to change their status to H-1B

Here’s what immigration attorneys say about working and founding startups while on a student visa.

US missions in India issue a record 140,000 student visas in FY 2023 ended September 30

Program benefited more than 117,000 STEM graduates with F-1 visas last year

What are the employment options for international students with F-1 visas.

Working in the US without authorization has serious consequences, including removal and bars to reentry 

New Jersey family waiting for their son’s F-1 visa for nearly a year to stay in the US.

Covid travel bans don’t seem to have dampened enthusiasm for their favorite study destination.

Agency says pandemic, increase in filings, postal service volume and other “external factors” caused delays.

Many in danger of losing jobs and job offers, as even USCIS receipts that used to arrive within two weeks now take more than two months.

Times calls for scrapping of proposed fixed period stay for F, J, I visas.

Move to hit foreign students, exchange visitors and information media representatives.

Exceeding unemployment limits can result in a loss of status, warns USCIS.

H1B, H2B, H4, L, J categories in excepted categories may also apply.

Trump reversal on online-only students not for new students, says ICE.

Reversal does not apply to new students requiring F-1 sponsorship, says Harvard.

Immigration authorities tell federal court that the July 6 directive will be rescinded. 

States say new rule “fails to consider the harm to international students and their families.”