For highly skilled overseas workers, getting work authorization through the U.S. immigration system isn’t easy. There are legal hoops to jump through, stringent deadlines to meet and visa caps that might mean all the hard work leads nowhere.
Now, after a U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruling, the situation has become more complicated for foreign workers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Companies looking to employ foreign workers using the Optional Practical Training program for STEM workers, which allows recent foreign graduates of U.S. institutions to work for a limited time in the U.S. while still on an F-1 student visa, now face the possibility their employees will be deported.
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