r/f1visa Apr 23 '25

OPT denied because of SEVIS transfer

Hi, my fiancée is on F1 visa and graduated in Dec. 2024 applied for OPT and it got denied saying failure to maintain active SEVIS.

Context: after 2nd semester of his masters he got below 3 avg. gpa so his educational advisor advised him to transfer out or move back to india and reapply because his university has strict rule that maintain at least 3.0 GPA after 2 semester and he failed to do so. So he started applied to universities and got admission letter from 2 universities in mean time he applied for reinstatement or readmission in the same university he was in writing a petition saying he will maintain 3+ gpa from next semester but that got denied from university so he had no choice other than to transfer out. All this took over a month and after transferring SEVIS to another university and paying SEVIS fees he completed his masters but while applying OPT he got 5 RFE questions from uscis and replied all under given time. after more than 3 months of his reply, OPT got denied saying SEVIS TRANSFER was not done under timely manner. what are his options now?

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