从去年8年,一场诉讼引起理工科OPT延期可能会被取消,到10月的新OPT延期提案。
终于尘埃落定,OPT延期法案细节出炉!将于5月10号生效!
DATES: This rule is effective May 10, 2016, except the additionof 8 CFR 214.16, which is effective from May 10, 2016, through May 10, 2019.
公示网站链接:
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/03/11/2016-04828/improving-and-expanding-training-opportunities-for-f-1-nonimmigrant-students-with-stem-degrees-and
由于目前公示文件还未正式发布,只能查看PDF版本。
细则是300页的PDF文档。
PDF链接:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-04828.pdf
PDF SUMMARY:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its F-1nonimmigrant
student visa regulations on optional practical training (OPT)for certain students with degrees in science, technology, engineering, ormathematics (STEM) from U.S. institutions of higher education. Specifically,the final rule allows such F-1 STEM students who have elected to pursue 12months of OPT in the United States to extend the OPT period by 24 months (STEM OPTextension). This 24-month extension effectively replaces the 17-month STEM OPT
extension previously available to certain STEM students. Therule also improves and increases oversight over STEM OPT extensions by, amongother things, requiring the implementation of formal training plans byemployers, adding wage and other protections for STEM OPT students and U.S.workers, and allowing extensions only to students with degrees from accredited schools.As with the prior 17-month STEM OPT extension, the rule authorizes STEM OPT extensionsonly for students employed by employers who participate in E-Verify. The rulealso includes the “Cap-Gap” relief first introduced in a 2008 DHS regulationfor any F-1 student with a timely filed H-1B petition and request for change ofstatus.

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