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Applying for OPT with a marriage based green card application pending.

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MARYVALLE   0

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I just finished my program and I am considering applying for OPT because I would like to have work authorization. The green card application+benefits which includes EAD issue has been paused after the current USCIS memo. My country is included in the list of countries affected. We have been advised by our lawyer to not apply for tOPT and let the F-1 status lapse. His reasoning is that given the current immigration environment applying for OPT on a non immigrant visa gives the wrong intent given I am applying for a green card with an immigration intent. Have anybody been in the same position? Did you apply for OPT while you had marriages based green care pending? I don’t know when I am going to get my EAD through the GC application and i don’t want to miss the opportunity to apply for work authorization as part of the F-1 benefit before the status lapses. 

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Disagree with the Lawyer, is this a real Lawyer?

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

 
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