Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4644
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2021-07-22
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Employee hiring

Foreign labor

Higher education

Immigration status and procedures

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-07-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2021 </b></p> <p>This bill eliminates the Optional Practical Training Program or any successor program, unless Congress expressly authorizes such a program. (The program provides an F-1 student visa holder temporary employment authorization before or after completion of the student's studies, or both.) </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4644 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 22, 2021 Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Brooks , Mr. Biggs , and Mr. Gaetz ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the Optional Practical Training Program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2021 . 2. Eliminating the Optional Practical Training Program Section 274A(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1324a ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (4) Employment authorization for aliens no longer engaged in full-time study in the United States Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no alien present in the United States as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) may be provided employment authorization in the United States pursuant to the Optional Practical Training Program, or any such successor program, without an express Act of Congress authorizing such a program. .