That one is easy to answer Karin. The more difficult question is will DHS suspend 90 and 120 day unemployment regs for those on OPT?

If they do approve SSR will they waive the $410 application fee and process applications quickly?

Nearly 275,000 unique registrations were submitted during the initial H-1B lottery registration period. At $10 a pop, that means DHS collected $2,750,000 just for letting companies ask for an H-1B slot.

Working at a school where 25 - 30% of our international student population uses OPT, this has the potential to negatively impact our enrollment numbers.

I'm not sure I believe this figure. I wish SEVIS was accurate and up-to-date with such data. It would nice if we could run a report to actually see how many of our active students are outside the US.

So the Trump Administration slows processing times, increases denials, and bars certain applications, causing USCIS to run out of money, and now applicants have to make up the deficit? nytimes.com/2020/05/17/us/…

Another day, another Presidential proclamation that makes my job harder! Aargh!

Between a nationalistic administration and COVID-19 issues I feel like all I do is ..... media.giphy.com/media/3ov9jDba…

25% of the University of Cincinnati's total international student population are on OPT. We need them! Our employers need them! #PreserveOPT NAFSA Council of Graduate Schools

Great leadership from Archive: Steve Stivers showing he understands the importance of international students and OPT to higher education and the U.S. economy. #PreserveOPT Council of Graduate Schools NAFSA

Another international student athlete joins the Bearcat family. Can't wait to meet him!

Thank you Senator Brown Sherrod Brown for showing support for the institutions of higher education in Ohio and all the great international students who study and live in our state by signing warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

All things considered though, I'm doing a little happy dance!

So the agency that currently takes 9 months or more to process any I-539 is going to implement a rule that will end up requiring hundreds of thousands of additional I-539 applications to be filed? This won't end well for students, institutions or DHS!

A complete lack of understanding of how higher education in this country works!

So one day a rule gets proposed that will require hundreds of thousands of extension applications to be filed, then they approve a means to allow for premium processing of those petitions at $1,750 a pop. Both genius and reprehensible! forbes.com/sites/stuartan…

I'd be curious to hear how Mr. Cuccinelli thinks a DSO could possibly know a student/company was committing OPT fraud.

Merry Christmas to you Rod Gilmore. You are a good CFP analyst!

Happy to have contributed to this article