
But if You're gonna leave the country, you need to come back here and get a visa. If you're not leaving the country, you're perfectly legal to keep know what you're doing. If you're in the US on OPT and you're in status with your school and with the immigration service, you don't have to get a new visa unless you want to leave the country.

"This gets really confusing our graduates. Responding to the question if students need visa stamping who are in the US on an OPT (Optional Practical Training), Heflin said that this summer we started with dropbox appointments, for students which they have never been able to do before. We think that they will get the appointment at the consul, nearest to their home". By the next summer, we're going to be much closer to 100% staffing. Now, we don't mind that when it's a Business person or maybe a Graduate student, maybe an H1 worker. So, people rushing for appointments and people flew across the country. We have different global advice consuls in different places. "This is a result of when Covid froze everything up. He also notified that next summer they may have 100% staffing in a bid to avoid issues like students travelling between cities to visit consulates. If you check them over and over and over and watch out for 72 hours then it's really a bummer and we don't like that happen to people." That won't get you locked out and appointments go so fast that if you are checking two or three times a day, you miss them.

Responding to the question of complaints about the system locking the applicants if they keep checking the website, he said, "We advise people to check our site two or three times a day.
