Applying for OPT

yospg

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I am currently on CPT and planning to defend my report in April and then go on OPT(start date in April) . But my international student office is telling me that i cannot apply for OPT till the first week of May, the end of the semester. I am also not allowed to work once i defend my project.
Could anybody please tell if there is a rule as that put our OPT start day as a day in the middle of the semester?
Please respond
 
are you a graduate student? if yes, then you can start your OPT at any time.

If you are undergraduate, then you have to schedule your OPT to start within 60 days of the last day of your studies/I-20 whichever comes first. Since getting OPT permit takes up to three months, you have to apply for it before you finish your studies.

http://international.missouri.edu/isss/students/opt/ read this.
 
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