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Article: A USCIS Epiphany - Musings On F-1 STEM Workers And The Out-Of-Luck Programmers Guild.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- August 18, 2008
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Chalk up one for USCIS and a Federal Judge. The agency's 17-month extension of F-1 optional practical training has survived a motion for preliminary injunction sought by the Programmers Guild. U.S. District Judge Faith S. Hochberg issued an August 5 order finding a lack of causal connection and insufficient harm to sustain the claim of Guild's members (out-of-work or underemployed engineers and programmers) that failure to grant a preliminary injuction would irreparably injure them.
USCIS's lawyers filed a nifty memorandum of law with apparently persuasive arguments, including a history of the agency's pre-INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) authority ...