STEM OPT Under Siege for Third Party Placements
STEM OPT Under Siege for Third Party Placements By Roujin Mozaffarimehr and Eddie Corona Without any warning, USCIS has re-interpreted the STEM OPT Rule from 2016 to eliminate third party placements and product implementations at a client’s worksite. The current STEM OPT regulations at 8 CFR 214.2(f) do not have any explicit bars to employers placing…