International Student Services | Reporting your OPT employment

Reporting your OPT employment

After receiving your approval notice for Post Completion OPT from USCIS, you must report your employment to ISGSS immediately. You are still an F-1 student even though you are doing OPT. If you do not report to our office within 90 days after your approved OPT start date, your status will be terminated. If you cannot find a job within 90 days of the start of your OPT, then you must make plans to depart the US immediately or change to some other status in the US.

Please use the forms linked below to report any of the following:

First/ initial OPT employment report
Additional OPT employment report
Change of OPT employer

NOTE: Students cannot begin a new OPT employment on the last day of their OPT authorization as indicated on their EAD card.

Reporting a change to previously reported employment.

Steps:

Work with your employer to complete the OPT & STEM OPT Employer Information Form
Upload your documents to the ISGSS - OPT Employer Google Form linked below.
1. OPT EAD card
2. Offer letter
3. OPT & STEM OPT Employer Info. Form
4. I-797 for new initial employment report

Our processing time for this request is 5 working days, only if your form is complete with no corrections needed. Sending multiple emails to follow up will only delay your request.

Reminder: Your 蘑菇视频ios email account will be deactivated one year after you complete your program. Please ensure that you use your personal email address for all SEVIS and USCIS-related communications and forms.