August 08, 2016
A Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has to pay a technology workers union more than $42,000 in a dispute over a work program for F-1 student visa holders, far less than the $465,000 the group had sought.
June 27, 2016
The federal government urged a D.C. federal judge on Friday not to award a technology union roughly $465,000 in attorneys' fees in litigation challenging a work program for foreign students, saying the union was not the prevailing party.
June 13, 2016
A technology workers union that challenged a work program for foreign students asked a D.C. federal court on Friday for a little over $465,000 in attorneys' fees and litigation costs, claiming it won because it "forced a change" in a legal dynamic between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and itself.
February 08, 2016
A revised version of a rule rejected last year by a D.C. federal judge that would allow certain F-1 student visa holders to work longer in the U.S. is one step closer to appearing in the Federal Register, now that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has submitted it to a White House agency for review.
January 25, 2016
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will have 90 additional days to revise a rule allowing certain student visa holders to work longer in the U.S., after a D.C. federal judge on Saturday delayed an order axing the regulation so the agency could avoid a regulation gap.
January 22, 2016
A tech sector union asked a District of Columbia federal judge to let a rejected rule about foreign students working in the U.S. expire as scheduled in February, arguing at a hearing Thursday that any uncertainty the lapse causes for immigrants is the government's fault for trying to write a new rule in six months rather than fix the old one.
January 15, 2016
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged a D.C. federal court on Thursday to give it 90 more days to revise its optional practical training period regulations, as allowing them to expire next month would hurt tens of thousands of foreign students who rely on the rules to lawfully work as they study.
January 12, 2016
A technology workers union asked a D.C. federal court Monday not to give the Department of Homeland Security more time to revise a rejected regulation allowing some foreign students to work in the U.S. longer than others.
December 23, 2015
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security asked a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to prolong its stay of an order axing an optional practical training extension for certain student visa holders, saying the agency needs more time to review the over 50,500 comments received on its replacement rule.
August 19, 2015
A union fighting an extension of optional practical training for certain foreign students appealed a ruling against the program to the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday in an effort to "head off" replacement rules for the newly vacated policy, according to the group's attorney.