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February 12, 2021
https://www.afinalwarning.com/495609.html (Natural News) President Joe Biden has scrapped a policy mandating that colleges and universities disclose all dealings with the Chinese government and its Confucius Institutes. The policy was enacted by former President Donald Trump to encourage transparency amid growing evidence that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda was infiltrating America’s education system. Under the policy, institutions that failed to comply would lose certification ...
February 10, 2021
The Biden administration quietly tossed a proposed rule that would have required U.S. universities and K-12 schools with foreign exchange programs to disclose any financial ties or other connections to Chinese state-run Confucius Institutes.
February 1, 2021
Biden Closes Office Tasked with Protecting Job Rights of U.S. Graduates 4:51 pm EST The Biden administration is eliminating an office created to protect millions of American graduates from government-fueled corporate discrimination in hiring, pay, and workplace rights. The worker-rights office was announced January 13 by President Donald Trump’s deputies and canceled January 26 by Biden’s deputies. “The short-lived office was intended to document and expose the corporate discrimination ag...
January 29, 2021
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Earlier this week, on January 26, 2021, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) rescinded its intention, announced less than two weeks earlier, to develop an OPT Employment Compliance Unit. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) compliance-focused plan included close collaboration with other government agencies. According to SEVP, following additional reviews of ICE’s current Optional Practical Training (OPT) comp...
January 28, 2021
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Earlier this week, on January 26, 2021, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) rescinded its intention, announced less than two weeks earlier, to develop an OPT Employment Compliance Unit. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) compliance-focused plan included close collaboration with other government agencies. According to SEVP, following additional reviews of ICE’s current Optional Practical Training (OPT) compli...
January 16, 2021
15 Jan 2021 The Department of Homeland Security is promising to issue a detailed report about the roughly 500,000 white-collar jobs that are transferred from American graduates to foreigners via the huge university-backed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which is often described as the younger version of the H-1B program. The agency “is currently unable to evaluate the impact OPT has had on U.S. workers and foreign students who have obtained work authorization through the programs,�...
January 7, 2021
English By Madeline Joung Share on Facebook Print this page Federal guidance for international students enrolled in U.S. universities is likely to remain the same for Spring semester 2021 regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, an ICE spokesperson announced. The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) federal guidance, issued in March 2020, allows international students with F or M student visas to take their courses online without jeopardizing...
December 19, 2020
Lawrence Bacow, the president of the USA’s oldest university, Harvard, has urged President elect, Joe Biden, to prioritize US immigration reform for international students. In recent months, the Trump administration has attempted to restrict US F1 and M1 student visas amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking legal challenges from Harvard and other universities. Bacow has called on Biden to make US visa processing ‘streamlined and predictable.’ Upon congratulating Biden for his election win...