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- Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-Arizona-5]
- Rep. Gill, Brandon [R-Texas-26]
- Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-Wyoming]
- Rep. Miller, Mary E. [R-Illinois-15]
- Rep. Moore, Barry [R-Alabama-1]
- Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-Tennessee-5]
- Rep. Roy, Chip [R-Texas-21]
- Rep. Burchett, Tim [R-Tennessee-2]
- Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-Colorado-4]
- Rep. Collins, Mike [R-Georgia-10]
- Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-Florida-13]
- Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-Texas-22]
- Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-Ohio-8]
- Rep. Greene, Marjorie Taylor [R-Georgia-14]
- Rep. Cline, Ben [R-Virginia-6]
- Rep. Barr, Andy [R-Kentucky-6]
- Rep. Cloud, Michael [R-Texas-27]
- Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-Florida-19]
- Rep. Fine, Randy [R-Florida-6]
- Rep. Self, Keith [R-Texas-3]
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This bill would end the federal program that lets certain foreign students in the United States work after, or while finishing, their full-time studies. In plain terms, it would stop the Optional Practical Training program and any similar replacement program unless Congress later passes a law specifically allowing it. The bill is meant to remove this work option for students here on F-1 visas and would require a new act of Congress before any similar program could be used again.
- It changes the immigration law to say that no student in F-1 status may receive work authorization through the Optional Practical Training program.
- The ban would also apply to any future program that works like Optional Practical Training, unless Congress expressly creates and approves it.
- The bill does not create a new program or set up a replacement; it simply removes this work authorization authority from existing law.
Official Summaries
Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2025
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.)
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2315 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2315
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the Optional
Practical Training Program, and for other purposes.
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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
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A BILL
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the Optional
Practical Training Program, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for High-Skilled Americans
Act of 2025''.
SEC. 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.''.
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