{"id":401,"date":"2016-03-09T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T01:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/en\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T01:19:28","slug":"new-u-s-rule-extends-stay-for-some-foreign-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/new-u-s-rule-extends-stay-for-some-foreign-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. Rule Extends Stay for Some Foreign Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The U.S. government will publish the rule on Friday\uff08March 11, 2016), enabling international students earning degrees in STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in the U.S. be eligible to stay for up to three years of on-the-job training. This will replace the 2008 rule for <\/span><span class=\"s2\">the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/01\/education\/edlife\/should-foreign-graduates-get-a-visa-edge.html\"><span class=\"s3\">STEM Optional Practical Training program<\/span><\/a>,<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> known as OPT, and extends seven more months for the OPT period. The new rule will take effect on May 10.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government will publish the rule on Friday\uff08March 11, 2016), enabling international students earning degrees in STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in the U.S. be eligible to stay for up to three years of on-the-job training. This will replace the 2008 rule for the STEM Optional Practical Training program, known as OPT, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-immigration","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}