OPT time limit and OPT time calculation

OPT will start working 60 days after graduation at the latest.

You are an international student on F 1 visa and a student on the STEM professional list. The maximum time limit of OPT for all majors will reach 48 months. Students will have enough time to find a suitable job. For example, if you want to start in May 16, you need to leave the country.

The internship period is 12 months and ends within 14 months after the course ends. You must start work at that time in July. But you have to apply in advance, and then get the American green card through work and residence, and then be naturalized. If May 16 doesn't want to start: invalid.

Ph.D. graduates can apply for an H- 1B visa. If you apply for a full-time master's degree, you can find a work internship unit in related fields. He can apply for an H-4 visa, and you can try to transfer to the study status of F 1.

If you don't have a spouse, you can practice for one year during your sophomore year, but the total length of CPT can be close to one year (364 days) and not more than one year (365 days). Students majoring in mathematics can be in the first OPT state and apply for immigration.

Extended data

Option: invalid

1. According to the law, you must find a job within 90 days after OPT starts, otherwise the EAD card /OPT will automatically become invalid. After 90 days, it will be in a cumulative state of no work.

2. After 2.OPT starts working (within 90 days), you need to send a letter to the international student office of the graduate school, stating your current work unit and your current address. The international student office of the university needs to apply to the US Immigration Service, otherwise it will be deported.

Policy disputes

201Sept. 4th, 8 According to the American World Journal, OPT, which has been easy to apply for and has a low threshold for many years, is deeply loved by international students.

However, in the four months from April to August in 20 18, the US Immigration Service "cared" OPT twice. Lawyers believe that the strictness of OPT has even been raised to the level of H- 1B, which may be due to the hope of avoiding abuse and technology export protection, but it also increases the difficulty for international students to find jobs.

In April, 20 18, the Immigration Bureau quietly revised the OPT usage regulations for STEM majors, prohibiting STEM majors from working in third-party companies during the OPT extension period. However, due to the lack of notice, the Immigration Bureau was accused of going to court and thought that the implementation and promulgation of its new regulations did not conform to the process.

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