| Grande Antilles, someone posted a link to an article saying that certain highly skilled workers are eligible for 17 more months of OPT and asked what a highly skilled worker was in that context. We were clearly talking about laws and policies in which context "highly skilled" does have a very strict definition that has little to do with what an employer would consider a very precious employee. Feel free to post your opinion and out-of-the-box examples, but please explicitly label them as such.
I guess I could let the discussion about CC students rest because none of us seems to have any new evidence but I would just like to comment on this: "why wouldn't the CC student get a new OPT too given that a Bach student gets a new one when he goes to grad" - undergrad and grad are two distinct educational levels, but AA and BA degrees are not: an AA is the same as the first two years of a BA! Student X goes to a CC for two years to get an AA, then transfers to a 4-year college, gets two years worth of transfer credit for his AA and needs another two years to finish bis BA. Why should student X get more OPT than student Y who went straight to a 4-year college for four years? Both were in total 4 years in college to get a BA degree. Again, I might be wrong on this issue but I spent some time searching and I have not found a single CC website that explicitly says "your OPT time will start over once you transfer to a 4-year college." Does anyone know a website that clearly states this? |