1, CPT visa is used during the study period, such as paid internship courses, such as studying hotel management. During the sophomore year, you can go to practice for one year, but the total length of CPT can be close to one year (364 days), but not more than one year (365 days). OPT visa is used after graduation, and it is a transitional visa after studying in the United States.
(1) Students who have graduated from American institutions of higher learning and above can find work practice units in related professional fields. During the internship period, you can keep the foreign student status of F 1, and you can apply for an H- 1B visa during the internship period, that is, you can apply for immigration by changing your student status to your work status. Previously, the period of OPT visa was 12 months, that is, if you need to get an H- 1B visa within 12 months. At present, if you study science, technology, engineering or mathematics, it can be extended to 29 months, but other majors usually take 12 months, and there are still two months to pack up and return to China after the OPT visa ends.
(2) It should be noted that for newly graduated students, no matter what major they study, the OPT visa applied for is always 65,438+02 months, except for students majoring in science and technology, engineering and mathematics, who can apply for an extension of 65,438+07 months in the first OPT status, so the OPT time is 29 months in total. When applying for extension, the applicant needs to be employed by an American employer and work in a field directly related to his major.
2.CPT generally needs to apply after one year of enrollment, but this is not the case if graduate students have to take an internship immediately because of the needs of the course. If you have studied more than one degree at the same level, for example, you have studied several master's degrees, then the length of one year is that all master's degrees add up to one year, instead of each master's degree having one year.
3. You need to apply for an OPT visa 3-4 months before graduation, no later than 3 months after graduation. You can work for any employer during your internship. After you lost your job, you didn't lose your identity immediately. Students can apply once after each learning stage, which means that you can apply once for undergraduate, master and doctoral graduation.
In addition, students with F 1 visas do not find suitable jobs during the OPT period, and they will not pack their bags and return to China immediately. If his spouse is in F 1 status, he can transfer to F2 visa. If his spouse is H- 1B, he can apply for an H-4 visa. If he has no spouse, he can try to transfer to F 1 again.