Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2019”.
Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2019
A BILL
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the Optional Practical Training Program, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Eliminating the Optional Practical Training Program
Section 274A(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(4) Employment authorization for aliens no longer engaged in full-time study in the United States—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no alien present in the United States as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) may be provided employment authorization in the United States pursuant to the Optional Practical Training Program, or any such successor program, without an express Act of Congress authorizing such a program.”