F visa

Um, so the sooner you start, the better if you plan on moving to United States.

Wajar says, "F-1 green card.

What is the easiest way except marriage? I'm graduating in December." If you're an F-1 student visa holder, how do you get a green card? There's no easiest way.

It's whatever is appropriate to you.

Some people have, like, you know, extraordinary ability, and getting the EB-1A is good.

It's such a, a deeply flawed system.

It comes back to their F-1 visa status-

Mm-hmm

... that they're student athletes, and if they're now getting paid for something that they're not being a student for-

You're not going to worry about, oh, my U.S. passport is expiring or my legal permanent residence card is expiring.

But what is happening when you have, for example, CPT, OPT, those are internships that are related to F-1 visa.

for example, or if there is an adjustment of status pending and there is some kind of employment authorization document, you know, those are very specific instances where people will have a temporary employment and they need to re-verify that employment, either through a new employment authorization document or through a different status.

No, thank you for that clarification.

in the shadows, uh, without a lot of fanfare.

A few days ago or last week, uh, there was the Massachusetts court stopped cold, the F1, getting rid of the duration of stay.

That was going to completely change how F1s are dealt with.

Uh, but again, that was not something that went through Congress.

It's a regulatory change.

Talk about if you're a business, hey, we've kind of built our budget around paying, you know, a certain amount of fees, you know, that might increase here and there reasonably, but not $103,000.

And, you know, talk about that.

So, Once they issue a final rule and they respond to all those comments, and as we learned with the F-1 regulation, they kind of ignore, they ignore a lot of them to get to their own, they get to their own results.

He's pursuing a doctorate in computer science at Georgia State University.

Now, he mentioned that he and many of his friends have taken out loans to pay for their education in the U.S. We should mention that F-1 or J-1 visa students do not qualify for federal loans or government aid, but they can obtain private loans.

Joining us now is Eric Millen.

He's a lecturer emeritus at Duke University, where he studied academic freedom, and he led a project exploring democracy and the politics of higher education.

There's some scuttlebutt out there that says that optional practical training, OPT, that they're going to try to do a $100,000 fee for that.

So that would really be a game changer with respect to F1 students and their ability to go from graduating from school and moving into the workforce in what is a period of practical training and has always been a method for for employers to find highly skilled workers and allow them to come in and also allow them to transition from this OPT period into an H-1B.

or some other type of visa category.

So that's changed.

Has anyone else experienced ICE detention while an OPT motion was pending? Additional details and clarification have been added later during an edit.

My girlfriend entered the U.S. legally on an F-1 student visa and applied for OPT, and USCIS denied her OPT application, citing an error with the dates.

However, her school provided written confirmation that there was no error, and her attorney filed a motion challenging the denial with the documentation.

She was given that 60-day grace period that would not have expired until October.