{"id":158756,"date":"2026-10-13T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158756"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:17:08","slug":"public-comments-flood-us-government-websites-over-proposed-h-1b-opt-fee-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158756","title":{"rendered":"Public comments flood US government websites over proposed H-1B, OPT fee hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostKana Liu, a Chinese Canadian living in the US on a work visa, felt compelled to speak up.<br \/>\nFaced with a Department of Homeland Security proposal to charge up to US$100,000 in fees for international students to work in the US after graduation under Optional Practical Training (OPT), she rushed to the government\u2019s public comment portal.<br \/>\n\u201cI firmly oppose the proposed $70,000 initial OPT fee and $30,000 subsequent fee,\u201d she wrote on the federal comment site on October 12. \u201cThey create undue barriers&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3370790\/public-comments-flood-us-government-websites-over-proposed-h-1b-opt-fee-hikes?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostKana Liu, a Chinese Canadian living in the US on a work visa, felt compelled to speak up. Faced with a Department of Homeland&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158756"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}