Important INFORMATION regarding Reporting Requirement While on OPT!!!
All students on OPT are required to report to the DSO:

• Any changes of name or address
• Any interruption of employment

Please go to the following link on our website to fulfill your reporting requirement: http://www.campuslife.emory.edu/issp/students/optupdate.aspx
In addition, students with an approved 17-month OPT extension must report to the student's DSO within 10 days of any change of:

• Legal name
• Residential or mailing address
• Employer name and address
• Loss of employment
• Must make a validation report to the DSO every six months starting from the date the extension begins and ending when the student's F-1 status ends, the student changes educational levels at the same school, the student transfers to another school, or the 17-month OPT extension ends, whichever is first. The validation is a confirmation that the student's name and address, employer name and address, and/or loss of employment is current and accurate. The report is due to the DSO within 10 business days of each reporting date

Limited Periods of Unemployment to Maintain Status
During post-completion OPT, F-1 status is dependent upon employment.

• Students cannot have more than 90 days aggregate unemployment.
• Students who receive a 17-month STEM OPT extension are given an additional 30 days of unemployment for a total of 120 days over their entire post-completion OPT period.
• Students who have OPT extended due to the cap gap provisions continue to accrue unemployment time and are subject to the 90-day limitation on unemployment.
• The limits on unemployment do not apply retroactively. Only unemployment beginning on or after April 8, 2008 will count.
• Each day during the period when OPT authorization begins and ends that the student does not have qualifying employment counts as a day of unemployment. The only exception is that periods of up to 10 days between the end of one job and the beginning of the next job will not be included in the calculation for time spent unemployed.
• Each day spent outside of the United States while a student does not have employment will count toward the 90 days aggregate (120 if you are STEM).

Special thanks to NAFSA. Information was gathered from their website www.nafsa.org