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Please read our Immigration Updates blog. A feed of the latest entries is below. Please click on the headings to read the full text.

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All non-immigrants on a UMass Lowell sponsored F-1, J-1, H-1B, O-1 or TN status may check the Maintenance of Status page for more information.

Immigration Updates Blog

  • SEVIS TO BEGIN AUTO-TERMINATING OPT/STEM...
    We are writing to you to inform you of a new SEVIS action. The functionality has been on SEVIS for years, but was never activated. As you know, F-1 Post-OPT students have a TOTAL of 90 days of unemployment time …
  • USCIS Provides Background Information...
    On Sept. 6, 2018, the CIS Ombudsman (CISOMB)1 held a stakeholder teleconference to discuss the USCIS “Issuance of Certain RFEs and NOIDs” policy memorandum (PM) that was issued on July 13, 2018. USCIS representatives provided an overview of the memorandum …
  • F-1 “Cap-gap” Status and Work Authorization...
    F-1 students who have an H-1B petition that remains pending on Oct. 1, 2018, risk accruing unlawful presence if they continue to work on or after Oct. 1 (unless otherwise authorized to continue employment), as their “cap-gap” work authorization is …
  • USCIS Policy Memo on Accrual of Unlawful...
    All non-immigrants must have a valid status at all times while in the U.S. or else they may start to accrue “unlawful presence.”  Accumulation of 180 days of unlawful presence could result in a three-year, re-entry bar to the U.S.  Accumulation of 365+ …
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