• MEDIA: In-person visa interview not required for OPT status

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 9 12:19:43 2022
    Via Brave,
    <URL:https://search.brave.com/news?q=OPT>
    see Times of India's Ishani Duttagupta on whether Donald Trump regrets
    taking Jared Kushner's advice to downplay the National Question on
    the campaign stump against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: <URL:https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/migrate/united-states-has-waived-in-person-visa-interviews-for-these-indian-students/articleshow/94534669.cms>
    | "At any time, F-1 students need a visa stamped in their passport to
    | be able to return to the USA. It's the same whether they're actively
    | in school or on their OPT," Diya Mathews, partner and attorney at
    | law firm Chugh, LLP, told Times of India. She added that though the
    | students on OPT may be working and getting paid, they are
    | technically still on F-1 student visa status.
    |
    | "OPT is just the work authorisation period towards the end of the F-
    | 1 status after the coursework is completed. There is no separate
    | visa status for OPT," she added. While most students applying for F-
    | 1 visas in India are interviewed before they are granted a visa; due
    | to the current visa processing backlogs in India some students are
    | being granted interview waivers if they have had a prior US visa.
    | "They can apply for a dropbox appointment which means they will
    | likely be exempt from in-person visa interview," Mathews said.

    Will Trump's Save America PAC endorse Betsy DeVos for ED.GOV, Chad
    Wolf for DHS.GOV, and Mike Pompeo for State.GOV?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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