To apply for CPT, you need to meet the following conditions:
1) The applicant's full-time student status is at least one year, and the F- 1 student status is valid. In other words, undergraduate students must complete 9 months of full-time study before they are eligible to apply for CPT. Graduate students don't have this requirement. Students can take CPT in the first semester, as long as the degree requirements are like this.
2) The work must be very clearly related to the students' field of study, not simply to get paid.
3) If a student has completed all the courses or requirements required to obtain a degree, he is not eligible to apply for CPT.
4) Students from English Training Center or ESL are not eligible to apply for CPT internship.
According to working hours, CPT can be divided into part-time and full-time jobs. If you work 20 hours a week or less and are a full-time student, this is called part-time CPT.
Working more than 20 hours a week is full-time CPT (OPT time is deducted here), and students generally participate in full-time CPT in summer.
It should be noted that if you have participated in full-time CPT for one year or more, you are not eligible to apply for OPT. Therefore, everyone must use their CPT carefully at school to avoid applying for OPT in the future or the validity period is not enough.
In addition, CPT needs to find an internship before applying to the school. Students are required to fill in 2-3 forms, first give them to the dean for signature, and then bring their passports and I20 forms to the international students' office. 10- 15 working days later, you can get the I20 form indicating your internship information and start and end time.
Speaking of which, some students will definitely ask, do you have to apply to the school for CPT before you can go out for an internship? In real life, there are indeed students who sneak out for internships by bypassing the school. ) But Bian Xiao wants to emphasize that this is illegal off-campus work, 10,000! Wan! Don't! But! Once found or reported, they will be severely punished by immediate deportation. /zd/lx