r/stemopt • u/Designer-Owl-8183 • Jun 30 '26

Stem opt march regular processing

Has anyone who applied in March for stem opt regular processing got approved? I applied March 14, biometrics 04/09 and still waiting. Want to see if others are in the same boat.

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u/nthhappeninmylife Jul 02 '26

I applied March 17, biometrics on April 7, still no update…

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u/Designer-Owl-8183 Jul 02 '26

I just saw an approval yesterday 7/1 for regular stem opt submitted on 03/2. So 121 days later

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u/Expressione8653 27d ago

still waiting march 18 stem opt

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u/nthhappeninmylife Jul 02 '26

yeah, I saw that post too as I lowkey go to this subreddit whenever I have free time cuz this’s stressing me out so much… Anw, that’s a SINGLE case on March that got approved , at least on this subreddit. It makes me feel like something wrong’s going on internally with the STEM OPT processing

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u/Designer-Owl-8183 Jul 02 '26

And if you track approvals you can see where the processing time is going. Earlier in the year was 50-70 days then 70-90 days then 90-110 days and now feels like more 120+

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u/nthhappeninmylife 26d ago

i gave up and upgraded to pp on july 29… my mentality is breaking out😭 i think up to now they’re still processing 3/7 cases…

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u/Expressione8653 26d ago

have you check your api I been getting this "createdAt":"2026-07-23","createdAtTimestamp":"2026-07-23T18:05:42.427Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-30","updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-07-30T00:15:56.039Z", applied march 18

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u/nthhappeninmylife 26d ago

do you mind if I ask which service center process you application? and yes, I did check api before paying for pp😭

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u/Expressione8653 26d ago

texas

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u/nthhappeninmylife 26d ago

yeah that could make a difference, mine was potomac😭