New Resource: OPT Validation Project

May 19, 2008

This Practice Resource provides a general overview of the information requested by SEVP through the OPT Data Validation Project. Examples of both electronic and paper-based reporting mechanisms from four institutions are provided as well as examples of communications to students.

OPT Validation Project was commissioned by the Regulatory Practice Subcommittee of KC-ISSS.

Task Force Members

• Teri Albrecht, University of Texas—Austin (Task Force Chair)
• Jody Heckman-Bose, University of Maryland—College Park
• Sarah Hilsman, Cornell University
• Siamak Nahidi, University of California, Los Angeles

Additional Contributors

• Robin Catmur, Dartmouth College
• Peter Briggs, Michigan State University
• Rolando M. Villalobos, Stanford University