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How it is logical to get every one in class an Internship? What if student don't get Internship offers. I did search CPT guidelines on UC systems and Santa Clara University, CSU San Jose, San Diego, Hayward....no where it is mandatory, not sure how you got this information. Any way I do not want to stretch this more...... Thanks for your time.

Guys, we got approval for OPT after submitting all documents. We prepared all answers with proof/evidence and it worked. Bottomline from my experience is you should follow all rules correctly and have all documents to prove. TO other members like JoeF & Jairichi: CPT can not be mandatory anywhere, It is always part of electives. Because when you apply for CPT / Interns in company you need to clear interviews to get offer to work. It is not possible to get whole class selected in some company or for any company to offer intern to full class. So if you get a offer and decide to do CPT then you get Credit towards your program, if you don't get offer to work then you take electives to get units/credit I am not making this statement out of blue..I did CPT during recession in 2008 hardly 10% of students in my class got chance to do Intern and I was student in California State University. And now my wife did CPT from another university.

Yeah many students in her class who got offers they did two CPT's which I mean again is in two semesters not two jobs or in two companies in same semester at all. And this was not through any consulting job but a proper intern in bay area startup. Yes they got 2 credits for doing CPT. In any case her college is preparing all documentation and it seems they get randomly 5-7 RFE every semester and its same for Summer 2015 and they are in same format. @Rahul412 - I do not mean to argue, but I think you did not understand case properly. How it is abuse? Abuse is doing CPT from day 1 in college or full time job through consulting companies or some job in different city. Here CPT is allowed only after college and company signed agreement and with in 15 miles of distance from college. Also it has to be approved by professor and can be done only after one year of academic studies. I see meeting all this criteria. Also I did two CPT's when I was in SJSU and honestly I did not see even small difference between rules I had in SJSU to NPU. So what is abuse? Are you telling state universities are abusing Cpt/Interns like other small universities here. Thanks

Hey guys apologies for not sharing complete information, no this is not shady college. Its "Northwestern Polytechnic University". It is very old university and not in news for CPT or OPT abuse like some other universities and are very strict in immigration stuff As far as CPT goes it was done as per college and USCIS rule which is starting CPT after one year of Academic studies as Full time student on F-1 visa and company is also with in commuting distance from college and approved by DSO and college staff. In fact we are submitting certification of attendance as evidence she had 100% attendance during CPT. My meaning two CPT's was in two semesters, it was for same company in Spring and Summer Semester, but not two companies.

Hello All, My wife applied for OPT visa in June 2015 and received RFE yesterday. RFE has approximately 10-12 questions which are divided in three sections. 1) College Program 2) CPT details ( She did two CPT's in Spring and Summer 2015 (current). 3) Proof of residency. She is trying her best to get all documents from college at earliest possible and send response back. I wanted to see if any one else had experienced similar earlier or now? Any idea how much is the processing time on RFE for OPT? Appreciate you reply/ inputs/advices in this kind of scenario. Thanks