Senator Arlen spectors immigration bill. - a small part of the bill i copy pasted here. for full details visit. http://www.visalaw.com/06mar1/2mar106.html Foreign Students The Spector bill makes important changes regarding student visas. First, F-1 optional practical training time is now extended from one year to 24 months. (Section 408). A new F-4 student visa is created for students pursuing advanced degrees in math, engineering, technology or the physical sciences. F-4 students would need to either return to their country of origin or remain in the US and pursue a job in their field and then pursue permanent residency. F-4s will be dual intent and the status can be extended while the applicant pursues permanent residency through a labor certification or other means. The alien must be working in his field as well to qualify to adjust status. Applicants for adjustment under this new section would pay a fee of $1000 which will fund scholarships and fraud prevention. Section 407 also would allow F-1 and F-4 students to accept off-campus jobs outside of the student’s field if the student is enrolled and in good standing at their educational institution, an employer provides the school and the Labor Department with an attestation that it has spent 21 days unsuccessfully recruiting for the job and is paying the higher of the actual or prevailing wage, and the student will work no more than 20 hours during the academic term or 40 hours per week on vacations. Section 409 exempts aliens who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math and have been working in their fields under a non-immigrant visa in the three years prior to filing for adjustment, recipients of national interest waivers, immediate relatives of aliens granted employment-based immigrant visas are exempt from green card quotas. Section 409 waives the labor certification recruitment requirement for those with advanced degrees in the sciences, technology, engineering or math from American universities. The H-1B cap is lifted for three years to 115,000. (Section 409). After that, the cap will remain at 115,000 but may rise up to 20% per year if the whole cap is used up in the prior year. If the cap is not reached, then the cap the next year will remain the same as the current year.