Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-2315
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2025-03-25
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2025 </strong></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 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2315 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 25, 2025 Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Biggs of Arizona , Mr. Gill of Texas , Ms. Hageman , Mrs. Miller of Illinois , Mr. Moore of Alabama , Mr. Ogles , Mr. Roy , and Mr. Burchett ) 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 2025 . 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. .