On December 22, 2015, Department of Homeland Security filed a motion in federal court in Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. United States Department of Homeland Security<\/em>\u00a0 to extend time that its current F-1 STEM regulations remain in effect beyond their current court ordered expiration date of February 12,\u00a0 2016.\u00a0\u00a0 In response to the court order, DHS issued proposed F-1 STEM regulations on October 19, 2015.<\/p>\n As background, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers sued DHS alleging that DHS\u00a0 impermissibly issued F-1 STEM regulations in 2008.\u00a0 The court agreed with the plaintiffs but stayed vacating DHS’ current F-1 STEM regulations until February 12, 2016 to permit DHS time to properly issue new F-1 STEM regulations.\u00a0 DHS issued its proposed F-1 STEM regulations on October 19, 2015.<\/p>\n Citing extraordinary circumstances in its receipt of more than 50,000 comments to its proposed regulations which it must review and to which it must respond, DHS stated (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On December 22, 2015, Department of Homeland Security filed a motion in federal court in Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. United States Department of Homeland Security\u00a0 to extend time that its current F-1 STEM regulations remain in effect beyond…<\/span><\/p>\n