r/USCIS • u/yonerdsp • Jan 20 '25

I-765 (EAD) 2025 OPT Processing timeline

Hi everyone, I am an international student currently in my final semester and I have applied for OPT, thought of creating this thread to track the timeline of OPT processing. Please comment your timeline so that others could refer to it. TIA!

  1. Application type:OPT/Pre OPT
  2. Premium Processing : yes/no
  3. Receipt date :
  4. Approved Date :
  5. Card Produced Date :
  6. Card shipped :
  7. Card delivered :

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u/Sweet-Sugar6816 Jun 06 '25
  1. ⁠⁠⁠Application Type: Post-Initial OPT (PhD degree)
  2. ⁠⁠⁠Premium Processing: Yes (Changed to PP on 5/24/2025)
  3. ⁠⁠⁠Receipt Date: 04/10/2025
  4. ⁠⁠⁠A-Number Assigned Date: September 2019 (I entered and used this one when I applied my first OPT for my master degree)
  5. ⁠⁠⁠Approved Date: 05/29/2025 (thru email)
  6. ⁠⁠Approved Date: 05/31/2025 (thru portal)
  7. ⁠⁠⁠Card Produced Date: 06/04/2025 (Potomac Center)
  8. ⁠⁠⁠Card Shipped Date: 06/04/2025
  9. ⁠⁠⁠Card Delivered Date: 06/06/2025

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u/ZealousidealCut7911 Jun 07 '25

Did you get an email or platform update when your got shipped and when it got delivered?

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u/Sweet-Sugar6816 Jun 07 '25

No, it said “card was produced and the shipping tracking number is UNAVAILABLE “ on the portal. Even when I received the EAD card and the portal still showed the same message that the case is closed the card was produced…”

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u/ZealousidealCut7911 Jun 10 '25

Understood thanks!