Hello, I received completion letter on May 31,and shouldn't be in employment until I got my OPT. I kept working as volunteer in my lab after May 31,but the department missed the email from international students service's letter with my name on the graduation list, so they didn't terminate my payment account. On June 13, they pay money to my bank account. One week later, when I brought my new I-20 to payroll office to renew, the officer in my department payroll found the date is changed to May 31 on my new I-20, they called ISS, and they said I have to stop working immediately and had to terminate my F-1, thus I had to go back to my country. I was willing to return the money but they didn't accept. I argued with ISS officer these days, and collected evidence from lab to prove that we already made aggrement that I only work as volunteer after May 31. But ISS just want to submit this issue and terminate my F-1. Apparently, it's not all my fault to get the payment resulting in my violation of the law, what should I do to let them not terminate my F-1. Because my OPT application fee has been accepted and processed. And I will be hired in the lab after I got my OPT.
My university is in Texas. I have got whole support from boss and coleagues in the lab, they all proved me as volunteer after May 31. But because I submit timesheet as a habit, the payroll approved it and resulted in my payment on June 13, ISS just didn't care my future and the fault of payroll system who didn't terminate my account in time. They just want to terminate my F-1 and let me leave US immediately.
My university is in Texas. I have got whole support from boss and coleagues in the lab, they all proved me as volunteer after May 31. But because I submit timesheet as a habit, the payroll approved it and resulted in my payment on June 13, ISS just didn't care my future and the fault of payroll system who didn't terminate my account in time. They just want to terminate my F-1 and let me leave US immediately.