tromsyo89

Wow, thank you all guys. I've read everything and though I believe that there are still things I don't understand I became aware of what the whole thing is all about. However, what made me start this thread is this article Undergrad Profile
The international student at Robins business school- U of Richmond clearly says that we are on our own in the job market. It doesn't sound encouraging, does it

b@r!um

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?

Grande Antilles

Hey I never found any sites that said that your OPT will be over or will be renewed when you transfer to a four year school from a community college. I only wrote that the DHS said that if you transfer, your OPT will be over but as it is well written in my two last posts, I don't know if they include CC student in this transfer policy and I don't know if they consider Bach< AA. Unfortunately I am not the one who write the rule for DHS and I bet that the students here are smart enough to check what is on the site so they can try to understand all the regulation for themselves.



Guys, the Homeland security and the USCIS have their sites so you can go there and read everything you need. If some of them are not clear, you can contact them. Sometimes when you email them, they would tell you to talk to your international advisor. If some of you are not in college yet, you can still email the international student advisor at your future college and ask all the questions that you want. They can give you a better answer than I and given that they have hands on experience with the OPT , they will not just interpret the regulation like Bible verses and try to tell you ten times that their definition of the law is the best one. Just contact them because they will not be assuming what a policy means but they will give you rational explanation. They are here to help you.

plainb

HEY!
As the battle rages on, let me express my love! for somebody who has done yeoman service on this board. I find her posts quite cute for a non-english one. And absolutely privileged are all those who are looking for guidance. Oh! I really like her.

b@r!um

"I only wrote that the DHS said that if you transfer, your OPT will be over" I would like to clarify that statement. Unless I completely misread the following comment by ICE, transfer students only lose OPT that was granted by their old college but they can re-apply for OPT at their new college:

ICE Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)

I second your recommendation that students should go and check for themselves what the policies are and not rely on anything that a stranger tells them in an online forum. But what strangers say might give students an idea where to start looking for information, and I hope that our battle (if you want to call it like that) was helpful for some

Grande Antilles

Bene, bene! I knew that you had to come back B!@m because you always want to have the last word. Well I also hope that our discussion was helpful for some. You might call it battle if you want because apparently that’s what you were trying to do.

I won’t post anymore in the thread If it’s not a clear information that does not required “ the expert’s opinion” . I guess that it won’t be fun for you anymore because you won’t have anyone to compare your knowledge of the Holly immigration rules with. You have the whole thread for you so you can interpret the oracles of DHS and USCIS for all of us. Now enjoy it and find yourself another person to compete with. Meanwhile, take a cold shower and relax for the rest of the day.
Arivedecci sinora

jasonshah

wow!!! this is gr8...entertainment with information. (Infotainment!!!)

Thanks guys for researching to give us your opinions. Well, it is all of ours job to search and get the knowledge about this OPT and CPT stuffs.