Keep Your F-1/CPT Status Through the Green Card Interview in 2026
Got a marriage-based EAD while on F-1? Staying in valid F-1 or CPT status until your green card interview is safer in 2026, even though the law already protects immediate relatives.
Pre- and post-completion OPT, CPT authorization, employer reporting obligations, and unemployment rules during the OPT period.
Got a marriage-based EAD while on F-1? Staying in valid F-1 or CPT status until your green card interview is safer in 2026, even though the law already protects immediate relatives.
An F-1 student traded his Singapore passport for Vanuatu investment citizenship mid-program. His OPT stalled past 130 days, and the travel ban probably isn't why.
An I-862 Notice to Appear case type on a routine I-797C biometrics notice sent an F-1 on OPT scrambling. Here is what to check before panicking.
An F-1 student did two years of day-one CPT and her lawyer left the paying employer off her I-485. Why that omission reads as fraud, not a clever fix.
An F-1 graduate marrying a U.S. citizen should file OPT to keep status valid alongside the marriage green card, and should not travel abroad mid-process.