If you lose your card, you must apply and pay for a replacement. Complete a new Form I-765 and resubmit it to USCIS with all supporting documents, including the fee. Contact your DSO and request an updated I-20. We recommend you keep your EAD at home (not in your wallet) because of the expense and time in applying for a replacement.
Please check on our OPT page about travel https://kysu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Travel-and-OPT.pdf
Once your OPT begins—see the start date as listed on your EAD, the card you’ll receive once your OPT is approved—you have a total of 90 days of unemployment during your OPT. If you cannot find a job within 90 days of the start of your OPT, then you must make plans to depart the US immediately or change to some other status in the US. Keep in mind that the 90 days of unemployment is for the entire OPT period. This means that if you use up 60 days of unemployment time looking for a job in the beginning, you only have 30 days of unemployment time for the remainder of your OPT period.
No. The EAD was issued for pre-completion OPT. Accordingly, the EAD is only valid for OPT prior to the program end date. You will have to stop working on or before the program end date and file a separate application for post-completion OPT. But you will not lose any unused OPT from the original EAD. You will only lose the OPT completed prior to the program end date. So, if you applied for part-time pre-completion OPT from January 02, 2020, to January 01, 2021, but finished the course of study on June 1, 2020, you will still have nine months of OPT available (the six months of part-time OPT you used would account for three months of the total amount available at that education level).
First of all, all OPT employment must be in a job that is related to the student's degree program. For students who are not on a 17-month extension, this employment may include (please refer to