According to a brief recently filed by her lawyer, Rapid City's Jim Leach, "Saxena needs to retain SEVIS status after ...

Optional Practical Training (OPT) is an opportunity for F-1 students to gain practical experience working off-campus in a job directly related to their major field of study. It is recommended in SEVIS ...

A large decline in international students could cripple school budgets that rely on tuition from foreign students.

“All reactivated records are F-1 student visa holders who are alumni on post-completion OPT (Optional Practical Training),” Collins wrote in an email to the Daily. More than 4,700 students have been ...

Under the Optional Practical Training program, students in science and technology can work for up to three years while waiting for other job permits. (Reuters ) The Department of Homeland Security ...

"Three of the students had graduated and were on Optional Practical Training status and the other is currently enrolled at the university. Two other international students remain on revoked status." ...

Three of the affected students are currently enrolled, while three others are participating in Optional Practical Training (OPT). The university is providing continued academic support to the ...

The former students were participating in the Federal Optional Practical Training Program (OPT). The program gives students temporary employment and allows them to stay in the country. UofL says ...

one that allows them to live and work legally beyond their Optional Practical Training (OPT). But what happens when that promise is cruelly pulled away at the last second? Many international ...