OPT Reporting

All F1 Students with approved OPT/STEM OPT must report their employment as required by federal regulations. 

• Students with 12-month post-completion OPT authorization are required to report their employment now using the myGlobal International Student Portal.

While you are still welcome to continue reporting your employment and any employment changes directly through the SEVP Portal, the OPT Reporting E-Form will need to be submitted to OGI regardless. 

• Students with 24-month STEM OPT Extension authorization are required to report their employment using myGlobal International Student Portal.
  • STEM Extension students may not use the SEVP Portal to report changes in their STEM employment.
     
• All students must continue to report changes of address, phone numbers, and email addresses in the Highlander Pipeline so the university has up to date contact information for you; however, you may report this information directly in your SEVP portal as well.

Employment changes/reporting may be submitted at any time prior to the change occurring or reporting due date, and must be submitted no greater than 10 days after the change occurring/reporting due date.

• This applies to students with approved change of status (eg: H1B) or who have traveled and re-entered the US with a different visa.
• Therefore, students who do not report the end of employment prior to their SEVIS inactivation may send page 5 of the I-983 to global, but they will not be able to report the end of employment in myGlobal or in SEVIS.