Multiple reports say US student visas for Indian nationals have fallen by 62%. One outlet attributes the decline to growth in the US-based OPT workforce, citing figures that put OPT worker numbers for Indians close to 3 lakh. Another outlet reports the same overall drop and references a CIS (Center for Immigration Studies) recommendation urging changes to the OPT programme.
While the articles focus on the sharp reduction in visas, they present different emphases: one stresses the numerical rise in OPT workers, while the other highlights advocacy for scrapping or restructuring OPT. Taken together, the reports link the visa decline to shifts in how Indian students move into work authorizations in the United States.
The sources agree on the core statistics—namely a 62% decline in student visas for Indians and OPT worker figures approaching 3 lakh—but they vary in the policy conclusions drawn from those numbers. The reports do not indicate a specific official US policy change within the articles.
