{"id":459594,"date":"2026-09-10T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459594\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:48:15","slug":"uc-berkeley-forced-to-shut-down-work-program-for-foreign-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459594\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley forced to shut down work program for foreign students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interview aired in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/podcast\/crosscurrents\/2026-09-10\/feeling-the-impact-of-federal-limits-to-student-work-visas\" class=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 10, 2026 episode of Crosscurrents. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Click the button above to listen. <\/p>\n<p>Bay Area college students have been back in school for less than a month now. At UC Berkeley, immigration is coming up as part of the back to school experience for many.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent a memo to the university that impacted thousands of their students here on visas. ICE sent a warning to the school letting it know that it risked losing government approval to take foreign students, if it did not close a temporary work authorization program called Course Credit Curricular Practical Training, or CPT.<\/p>\n<p>This program allowed foreign students to gain experience working for hi-tech businesses related to their field of study. Now UC Berkeley has indefinitely paused applications for the CPT work permit.<\/p>\n<p>Ayah Alshiekhah is news editor for The Daily Californian. She helped break the story, and here she helps us understand how this is impacting students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This interview aired in the September 10, 2026 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen. Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-459594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}