On August 4, 2023, the NAM filed its response to the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers’ petition for certiorari seeking Supreme Court review of the D.C. Circuit’s decision upholding the validity of the STEM occupational practical training (OPT) program. The NAM intervened in this case to protect the Department of Homeland Security’s STEM OPT program—a program that allows foreign-born students to continue their educational training by working in the United States for up to three years after completing college or a graduate program. We argued in our response that the Supreme Court should deny the petition requesting review of the D.C. Circuit’s decision upholding the validity of that program because the D.C. Circuit’s decision is correct and there is no circuit conflict on the issues involved in the case.
Happily, on October 2, 2023, the Supreme Court denied the petition.