Posted by: sedif April 4, 2008
OPT likely to be extended
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The Department of Homeland security homepage says "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released today an interim final rule extending the period of Optional Practical Training (OPT) from 12 to 29 months for qualified F-1 non-immigrant students"
 "http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1207334008610.shtm

Birbhadra, can you please checkout that page and confirm it. I might have misunderstood it. I had to face the H1-B gap problem in 2005 so i got really excited about it.
The full proposal is 48 pages, http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/press_opt_ifr.pdf
I am reading it to understand it more. But I am really excited regardless :D
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