I-bipartisan duo ihlehlela emuva emizamweni kaMongameli u-Donald Trump yokuqeda uhlelo oluvumela amakhulu ezinkulungwane zabafundi bakwamanye amazwe ukuthi basebenze e-US unyaka owodwa ngemuva kokuthweswa iziqu. I-Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) kanye no-Jay Obernolte (R-CA) bethula umthethosivivinywa ozohlanganisa Ukuqeqeshwa Okukhethekile Okusebenzayo (OPT), okuvumela abafundi bamazwe ngamazwe ukuthi basebenze emkhakheni wabo wokufunda izinyanga ezingu-12, nezandiso ezifika ezinyangeni ezingu-24 kubafundi be-STEM.
I-OPT yethulwa ngo-1992 futhi isebenza njengohlobo lwebhuloho phakathi kwama-visa abafundi, noma ama-F-1, nama-H-1Bs, isigaba sama-visa esinikezwa abantu bangaphandle abasebenzela izinkampani zase-US. Kodwa i-OPT manje isengozini …