<p>Wow, that was a college? I commute to D.C. for work but I live in NoVA and I’ve never even heard of this place.</p>
<p>There are two types of OPT: Pre-completion OPT and Post-completion OPT</p>
<p>From what I’ve read in the article we’re mostly talking about pre-completion OPT. Post-completion OPT is given after you have finished your degree requirements and is for 12 months at each educational level. You can apply for a 17 month extension if you’re in a STEM field and your employer uses the E-verify system.</p>
<p>For pre-completion OPT there are no real restrictions on unemployment. In post-completion, you have a max of 90 days unemployment.</p>
<p>Lived for 15 years in the Truro subdivision just off of Little River (and 15 years in downtown DC) until I moved to Madison. This thread is making me nostalgic. OTOH, I like living in a place that has a Beltline and not a Beltway. People here have no concept of real traffic.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly even pre-completion OPT required one year full time study before it could be authorized. ‘Schools’ like Tri-Valley were offering ‘first day OPT’ somehow :-). The second epic fail was the ‘physical presence’ requirement since F-1 and online classes are not allowed generally (one class a semester at most, again from what I remember)</p>
<p>Fun stuff :-)</p>
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<p>What’s funny (or not) is that are you drill down on that location you see “Midwest University” in the building next door, and which sounds like it could be the same thing.</p>
<p>What’s not been mentioned here is that I wouldn’t be surprised if they continued to take a cut (“charge tuition”) on student’s earnings during their (ahem) “internships.” (I’ve seen consulting companies pull a scam that isn’t much different in the tech industry with H1-B visas.)</p>
<p>Anyway, if so - how is this different from human trafficking? You pay someone to get you into the country, and you keep paying them to keep you there - sounds like a coyote to me.</p>
<p>And you can’t tell me there weren’t a dozen or a hundred bureaucrats who didn’t know <em>precisely</em> what was going on, there.</p>
<p>^^ Midwest U portrays itself as an ‘evangelical Christian institution’ and appears to have been founded by Koreans. </p>
<p>Their ‘Accreditation’ link transforms to a ‘Recognition’ link and basically says they’re not accredited by anyone - just that they’re permitted to operate - “in the State of Missouri as an exempted, non-profit, religious, degree-granting institution”.</p>
<p>They apparently have something in DC as well - at the same address as this other ‘school’ which is enough to make anyone suspect of it.</p>
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I agree.</p>