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The $100,000 OPT fee is a Trojan Horse for H-1B abuse

eig.org · published 14 August 2026

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slowboring.com

Trump’s terrible plan to break skilled immigration Read at the source ↗

9 Sept 2026

reason.com

Trump Once Promised International Students Green Cards. Now The Government Might Charge Them $100,000 To Work. Read at the source ↗

21 Aug 2026

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https://optobservatory.org/

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https://eig.org/exceptional-by-design/

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/02/22/a-look-at-the-high-fees-making-hiring-h-1b-visa-holders-challenging/

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-06-26/the-middlemen-gaming-the-us-work-visa-lottery-video

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https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-h1b-visa-middlemen-cheap-labor-for-us-banks

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https://agglomerations.eig.org/p/if-international-students-dont-get

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272717301676

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https://bse.eu/research/working-papers/the-effect-of-retaining-high-skilled-international-graduates-evidence-from-the-stem-opt-extension

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https://eig.org/immigrants-patents/

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https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-214/subpart-A/section-214.2

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-03/day-1-cpt-schools-make-millions-offering-degrees-doubling-as-work-visas

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https://agglomerations.eig.org/p/theres-a-better-way-to-allocate-h

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https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/latitudes/2026-03-25

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https://github.com/EIG-Research/opt-fee-response

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