advice needed
 

hi all,
here is a msg from my friend hope you can say anything "My MS will be completed in this May and (f1)visa will expire in this August 2003. I already applied for work permit.
I want to know -will my status expire after expiration of my visa? even i have applied for work permit for opt or i have to get extension or something

Re: advice needed
 

    >Subject: advice needed
    >From: syedraza70 [email protected]
    >Date: 3/28/03 4:26 AM Eastern Standard Time
    >Message-id:
    >hi all,
    >here is a msg from my friend hope you can say anything "My MS will be
    >completed in this May and (f1)visa will expire in this August 2003. I
    >already applied for work permit.
    >I want to know -will my status expire after expiration of my visa?
    >even i have applied for work permit for opt or i have to get extension
    >or something
    >--
    >razababa

If you are granted OPT, you are still on F-1 status.

Re: advice needed
 

"syedraza70" wrote in message
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    > here is a msg from my friend hope you can say anything "My MS will be
    > completed in this May and (f1)visa will expire in this August 2003. I
    > already applied for work permit.
    > I want to know -will my status expire after expiration of my visa?
    > even i have applied for work permit for opt or i have to get extension
    > or something

Your friend does not need a new visa unless he plans to leave the U.S. and
try to re-enter in F-1 status. The visa validity is utterly irrelevant to
his status while in the U.S. He will be maintaining valid status after
graduation and before the approval of the work permit.

It would be risky for him to leave the U.S. before the F-1 OPT approval.
There is a good chance he would not be allowed back into the U.S. in F-1
status.