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OPT (Optional Practical Training) ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•/์‹œ๊ธฐ ์ด์ •๋ฆฌ

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์ง€๋‚œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ํ•™๊ธฐ์— ์šฐ์—ฌ๊ณก์ ˆ ๋์— ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ทจ์—… ์ „์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“ค ๋•Œ์ฆˆ์Œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ์œ„ํ•ด OPT๋ฅผ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ์Šน์ธ์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์นด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์˜€์–ด์š”. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹น.

OPT๋ž€ Optional Practical Training์„ ๋œปํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์œ ํ•™์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ•™์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ (CPT) ํ•™์œ„๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋“ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ์ธํ„ด์ด๋‚˜ ์ทจ์—… ๋“ฑ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ธ ์‹ค๋ฌด ์ˆ˜์Šต (Practical Training) ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ํ•™์œ„๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋“ํ•œ ํ›„์˜ ์‹ค๋ฌด ์ˆ˜์Šต ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ OPT ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์กธ์—… ํ›„ 12๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ์ฃผ์–ด์ง€์ง€๋งŒ, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ์†ํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๊ณต์€ 3๋…„(1๋…„+2๋…„์—ฐ์žฅ)๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ์ „๊ณต์ด STEM field์— ์†ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€๋Š” I-20์˜ CIP Code๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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Optional Practical Training (OPT) for F-1 Students

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OPT๋Š” pre-OPT, post-OPT ๋‘๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”.  pre-OPT๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ทจ์—…์ด ์ผ์ฐ ๋˜์–ด ์กธ์—… ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ (CPT์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฆ„),  Post-OPT๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ•™๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ธฐ 90์ผ ์ „ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ•™๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ๋‚ ๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 60์ผ ์•ˆ์— ์‹ ์ฒญํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์กธ์—… ํ›„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กธ์—… ํ›„๊นŒ์ง€ ์žก์„œ์นญ์„ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ €ํฌ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ Post-OPT๋กœ ์ง€์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  OPT๋Š” ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์ถœ๊ตญ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด OPT์‹ ์ฒญ ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ์žƒ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ง€์ธ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ OPT์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์Šน์ธ์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์ถœ๊ตญ์„ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋จผ์ € ์‹ ์ฒญํ–ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ทจ์†Œ๋œ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋˜๋„ค์š”.

- OPT๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ํ•™๊ต์˜ International student ๋‹ด๋‹น์ž(DSO, Designated School Official)๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ OPT์šฉ I-20๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด I-20 ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰์ผ๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 30์ผ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ด๋ฏผ๊ตญ์— ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ•™๊ต์˜ DSO์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด I-20๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ๋ช‡์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์ „์ฒด OPT๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ์†Œ์š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ๋„‰๋„‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์žก๊ณ  ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•ด์•ผํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
- OPT๋กœ ์ทจ์—…์„ ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ „๊ณต๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ง์ข…์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ตœ์†Œ ์ฃผ๋‹น 20์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ณต๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ํŒŒํŠธํƒ€์ž„ ์žก์„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐœ ํ•ด๋„ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋„ค์š” (Total working hour์ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ 20์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. paid/unpaid ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ์ƒ๊ด€ ์—†์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ volunteer work๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ)
- OPT ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ์ดํ›„ ๋ฌด์ง ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ (Unemployment)๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ 90์ผ์„ ๋„˜์–ด์„  ์•ˆ๋˜๋ฉฐ, EAD(Employment Authorization Document) ์นด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง„ ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4/12/21 ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์—์„œ OPT์‹ ์ฒญ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜น์‹œ๋‚˜ ํ•ด์„œ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹๋Œ€๋กœ ์šฐํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์—ญ์‹œ๋‚˜ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธด ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋ผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ์ง€ ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ๋Š๋ฆฌ๋”๊ตฐ์š”. ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ ‘์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋‘๋‹ฌ ์ •๋„ ๋Šฆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๋น„์ถ”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* Initial OPT Application ์ œ์ถœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜*
1. Copy of OPT I-20 and previous I-20 (DSO์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ๋ฐ›์€ I-20 ์‚ฌ๋ณธ๊ณผ ์ด์ „ I-20์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ)
2. Form I-765
3. I-765 Filing fee $410 (Money order/personal check/cashier's check/credit card) > ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ U.S. Department of Homeland Security
4.Form G-1450 ($410์„ credit card๋กœ ๋‚ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ)
5. G-1145 E-Notification of Application/Petition Acceptance (์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ text์™€ email๋กœ ๋ฐ›๋„๋ก ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๋Š” ์„œ๋ฅ˜)
6. 30์ผ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ฐ์€ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์‚ฌ์ง„ 2์žฅ (2x2), ๋’ท๋ฉด์— ์—ฐํ•„๋กœ SEVIS#์™€ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์ ๊ณ  ์ง€ํผ๋ฐฑ์— ๋‹ด์•„์„œ ์ œ์ถœ
7. Copy of passport and visa page
8. I-94

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์šฐํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ธ OPT application์ด ์ ‘์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ์ ‘์ˆ˜๋ฒˆํ˜ธ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ ‘์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฉ”์ผ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ ‘์ˆ˜๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด๋†จ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์œ„์˜ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ํŠธ๋ ˆํ‚นํ•˜๋ฉด ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์šฐํŽธ ์ ‘์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ YSC, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ ‘์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ IOE๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค์š”.
์ €์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” opttimeline.com ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋งค์ผ ๋ช‡๊ฑด์˜ ์ผ€์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ์Šน์ธ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์–ด๋–ค ๋‚ ์งœ์˜ ์ผ€์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ์Šน์ธ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ์งˆ๋ฌธ/๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“ฑ๋„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


* My OPT Timeline *
Initial OPT (YSC)
Case was received - June 30, 2021
Card is being produced - August 28, 2021
Card was approved - August 30, 2021
Card was mailed to - September 2, 2021
Card was picked up by the United States Postal Service - September 3, 2021
I-797 (Notice of Action) was delivered - September 7, 2021
Card was delivered - September 10, 2021

๋‚จํŽธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ํ•™๊ธฐ์— ์กธ์—…์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋˜์–ด ์กธ์—…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ํ•œ๋‹ฌ๋ฐ˜ ์ •๋„ ์ „์— OPT Application์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. USPS์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ๋น„์‹ผ ๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ์ดํ‹€๋งŒ์— ์šฐํŽธ์ด ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์ ‘์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.
COVID19 ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰์ด ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ๋Š๋ ค์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด์ œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ •์ƒํ™”๋œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2๋‹ฌ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋น„๊ต์  ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์กธ์—… ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ์ทจ์—…์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ์ผ ์‹œ์ž‘ ์ „์— ์Šน์ธ๊ณผ EAD์นด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰์€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์นด๋“œ์€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋ณดํ†ต ์Šน์ธ ํ›„ ๋‘๊ฐ€์ง€ ์šฐํŽธ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ OPT๊ฐ€ ์Šน์ธ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” I-797 letter ์™€ ์‹ค๋ฌผ EAD์นด๋“œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ ์ง„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ๋‘๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์†ก๋˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. USCIS case tracking์—์„œ๋Š” tracking number๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ์ค˜์„œ ๋‘˜์ด ๋”ฐ๋กœ์˜ค๋Š”์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ž์–ด์š”. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” letter๊ฐ€ ๋จผ์ € ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” EAD์นด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ € ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

EAD์นด๋“œ ์—†์ด๋Š” ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ํ•™๊ต์— ์ทจ์—…์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง์› ๋“ฑ๋ก(?)์„ ํ• ๋•Œ EAD์นด๋“œ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•ด์•ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์นด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š”, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์นด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋˜๋Š” ์ค‘์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ ๋™์•ˆ์€ ์นด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด๋„ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์ด๋ฏธ ์นด๋“œ์— ์‹œ์ž‘ ์ผ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ฐํ˜”๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์žก์˜คํผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  OPT์Šน์ธ, EAD์นด๋“œ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ํ›„์—๋Š” ์ด๋ฏผ๊ตญ์— ์ทจ์—…์„ ํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. OPT์‹ ์ฒญ์ด ์Šน์ธ๋œ ํ›„ SEVP Portal์— account๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฉ”์ผ์ด ์˜ค๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ •๋ณด (employment/unemployment/changed U.S. address or telephone number)๋Š” SEVP Portal์— ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
-> ๊ทธ ํ›„์—๋Š” ์ง์žฅ๋ช…์ด ์ฐํžŒ I-20๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

OPT์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•œํ›„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ์žก์„œ์นญ์„ ํ•˜๋˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์กฐ๋งˆ์กฐ๋งˆํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์š”. ๋ชธ์€ ํŽธํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์ •๋ง ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋„ค์š”.
๋‚จํŽธ ์ทจ์—… ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๊ณ ! ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ OPT ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฐ ์ทจ์—…์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์ด ๋์Œ ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”, ๋‹ค๋“ค ํ™”์ดํŒ… ๐Ÿ˜Š