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Many students have been waiting for the STEM OPT Extension rule that was cancelled by a federal court earlier this year. As you know the New OPT Extension rule for STEM graduates was in review with OMB for some time and it was approved by OMB on October 14th. Â The actual proposed rule will be …
Updated : October 16th, 2016 There has been quite a bit of anxiety among thousands of current and prospective F1 students regarding the 17 Month OPT STEM Extension rule cancellation since August 12th , 2015. We had quite a bit of unofficial information from AILA, prominent attorneys giving us details and status on this, but …
In general, students are passionate about financial markets. International students on F1 Visa studying in the US are not different…Some of the F1 students might have been investing in stocks in their home country before moving to the US for education…they may want to continue to invest in stocks to have an understanding of the …
Updated : October 5th, 2015 It has been crazy and shocking news for many of the F1 students working on OPT Â with the federal judge issuing judgment saying that the 17 month OPT STEM extension rule will be vacated ( cancelled) from February 12th 2016 as US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) did not follow …
Updated : October 5th, 2015 There has been so much of news and confusion around the 17 month OPT extension cancellation by US District court.  Some feel the news is fake as the document does not have signature…Below is the summary.  To clarify, the news is real and there is so much of press coverage. This …
As many of you know, US government is shutdown since October 1st, 2013 and the discussions are still in progress in senate with no resolution yet. Yesterday, we wrote an article that focused on US Government Shutdown H1B Visa holders impact . I have seen many prospective students applying for MS or MBA in USA …
If you have applied for H1B visa and did not get selected in H1B Â Visa Lottery, you might be wondering about the options. Â Also, if you have been working on OPT might be considering Options to work in USA, if not selected in H1B Â lottery, of going for second masters. Some of the common questions …
One of our readers Amir Shah shared his F1 Visa stamping experience with us. Â Thanks to Amir ! You can share your experiences here Background – F1 Visa to attend University of Houston for MS – Computer Science I gave my F-1 visa interview at Islamabad embassy for going to University of Houston for MS …
In American Universities every student ( including international students) is assigned to an Academic advisor by the school. Let me share some of the tasks they help you with and the importance of talking to your academic advisor in this article. What does an Academic Advisor help you with ? Academic advisor is  someone from …
I still remember my first airport pick up experience as international student, it was crazy…I was very happy that I scheduled an airport pickup with International students office and Indian Students association… I would have been totally lost without it…Let me share the importance of arranging for an airport pickup and how to get that …