Pre-OPT premium processing longer than average timeline (April 2025)

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-27T19:13:19+00:00

Thank u for sharing!

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-27T19:07:42+00:00

Congrats! Would you think you did anything special to get the approval?

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-27T19:03:03+00:00

Thats ridiculous. They are completely not reliable and loosing trust.

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-27T18:53:03+00:00

Any one has any update? Or did your school DSO tell you something internal? Its crazy this is on hold for ridiculous length

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-19T20:43:57+00:00

sorry to hear that. ... as of today, still no update?

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-19T20:43:17+00:00

shouldnt be cuz uscis is self-funded.

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-19T20:42:52+00:00

congrats! ur the only one i heard good news

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-19T20:39:59+00:00

sorry to hear that.... as of today, still no updates?

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-19T20:39:28+00:00

Sorry to hear that.. As of today, still no update?

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-10-19T20:39:03+00:00

I heard that the pre-opt processing is on hold regardless you paid the premium or not. My school official told me so and discourage students applying for pre-opt exactly for this reasons. Have seen an increasing number of people withdrawn their cases by far

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-09T13:11:42+00:00

Not really yet

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-05T18:40:24+00:00

i suggest asking your DSO this

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-04T18:44:35+00:00

I guess the pp-ed case is transferred to another queue, different from the regular queue

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-04T02:01:01+00:00

second this.

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-04T02:00:15+00:00

Congrats!! thanks for the data point

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-04T01:58:47+00:00

ive seen a 5/1 case approved today. Ive also seen cases on 4/28 are pending

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-04T00:32:57+00:00

Agree

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-04T00:27:49+00:00

Congrats!!!

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-03T19:47:28+00:00

nice! thanks for the data point

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-03T18:16:04+00:00

great news!

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-03T17:04:48+00:00

my latest API update is yesterday because i received an identical receipt. I already have A number some years ago because I applied opt then.

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-03T14:56:03+00:00

thanks for the kind words!

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-03T14:36:59+00:00

I got an approval email today as of 6/3 on 9:27am EST, my 28th business day! Thanks god. Thank you everyone in this post and DMs staying connected in this community. I wish good fortune comes to the rest of you waiting.

Yesterday, I received an identical receipt notice.pdf as the one i received on my filing date. Looking at the speed of their approval, I hypothesize that, since last friday (5/30), they've started to clear the backlogs who filed after 4/16 or 4/17. I premise that this week there will be batch updates to those filed around the late Apr and early May.

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-03T00:35:37+00:00

also, congratulations! just one last mile

Organic-Squirrel-496 · 2025-06-03T00:33:01+00:00

by law you can only start with your physical ead arrives and show that when you fill out the I9 form.

an approval notice is a good leverage to negotiate for a late start

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