Effective August 9, 2018, USCIS made fundamental changes to its policy on how an immigration status violation might lead to a finding that an F, M, or J nonimmigrant should be subject to the 3- or 10-year reentry bar provisions.
Under the new policy, USCIS will start counting days of unlawful presence the day after an F, M, or J status violation occurs, unless the student applies for reinstatement or the student or exchange visitor is covered by some other exception to the unlawful presence counting rules.
Prior policy did not count unlawful presence until a USCIS official or immigration judge made a formal finding of a status violation.
Given the recent changes in the immigration rules, Students on OPT/H1B should avoid unemployment days. As you know that students on initial OPT can't be unemployed beyond 90 days.
To avoid the risk of unlawful presence OPT/CPT/H1B jobseekers are using DesiOPT resume blast feature to quickly reach 2500+ employers, who might eventually sponsor H-1B in April 2019.
Students on F1 visa going through OPT/CPT/H1B phase have many unanswered questions related to Job Search, Career Prospects, Immigration rules etc. To quickly find answers, students are interacting at DesiOPT Forums powered by social networking sites like Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Linked-In.
Have a question, ask DesiOPT Facebook community of 140,000+ OPT/CPT students.
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