Travel Steering for our Worldwide Neighborhood

If you’re a at the moment enrolled pupil touring earlier than your program finish date with a pending or permitted OPT utility, you will have to have the travel documents outlined above.

After your program finish date, touring is usually permitted if in case you have a pending or permitted OPT utility.

Very essential: your OPT utility have to be submitted and obtained by USCIS earlier than you permit the U.S! An OPT utility have to be submitted whereas bodily within the United States, and touring after your program finish date with no pending OPT utility (or any motion that may lengthen your F-1 standing, resembling transferring your SEVIS file to a brand new program) will consequence within the lack of your F-1 standing and the power to use for OPT.

Please bear in mind that when you journey after your program finish date with a pending OPT utility (or after your OPT finish date with a pending STEM OPT utility), and your utility is denied by USCIS for any cause, you’ll not be eligible to return to the U.S. in F-1 standing and re-apply.

For college students making use of for post-completion OPT: It is really useful that you have already got a job secured. Travel and reentry with out employment is often advantageous if you’re returning earlier than your OPT begin date. If your OPT has already began, it’s extra essential to have a job on the time of re-entry. Travel throughout your OPT unemployment time is greater danger and isn’t really useful.