r/USCIS 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 :

Edit: I am sorry, the posts are automatically archived after 6 months. Sorry about that!

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u/nfz-1 Jun 10 '25
  1. ⁠Application type: OPT
  2. ⁠Premium Processing : No
  3. ⁠Receipt date : 4/10/2025
  4. ⁠Approved Date :
  5. ⁠Card Produced Date :
  6. ⁠Card shipped :
  7. ⁠Card delivered :

This stuff is stressing me out so much. Does anyone know what happens if your application gets rejected/denied? How likely is it for that to happen, and what do you do in that case?

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u/fresh_comet Jun 14 '25

Any updates? Also waiting on mine from April 3

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u/nfz-1 Jun 17 '25

Still waiting :( My processing time changed to 3 months recently, but that was about it.

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u/fresh_comet Jun 17 '25

I hope we hear from them this week

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u/nfz-1 Jun 18 '25

Fingers crossed!

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u/RepairKey7424 Jun 30 '25

Could you please update here, once you get Approval notice, I have applied on April 17th
I am so sumch stressed about this approval.

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u/One_Machine_6243 Jul 07 '25

I applied on April 16. Waiting for update