Welcome to Agentic OPT & CPT thatcomputes the filing window from each student's own program end date.
Work authorization is a timing problem before it is a paperwork problem. Risely's agents compute each student's window from the record, open the checklist while there is still runway, and hand the DSO a drafted recommendation. The DSO signs.
OPT · one student graduating in May
working the window backward
Checklist opens
ninety days out: photos, the I-765 draft, the fee
The dates
the offer starts July 7, and the filing dates fit it
DSO recommendation
drafted for the DSO, the I-20 reissued the same week
Filed and tracked
the receipt is logged, and the timeline stays visible
Every window is computed from one record.
A cohort does not have a window. Each student has one, worked backward from the program end date on their own record, so the office runs a queue across the year rather than the same spring rush every spring.
Three records, three windows
computing
A student finishing in December
A student finishing in May
A student finishing in August
A cohort has no window. Each student has one, computed from the program end date on their own record, so the office works a queue across the year instead of one spring rush.
The checklist opens while the runway is still long.
Photos, the I-765 draft, the fee, and the dates that have to be talked through all land ninety days out. Anything that goes wrong on that list can still be fixed, which is the entire point of opening it early.
Opened ninety days out
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Anything that goes wrong on this list can still be fixed, because the list opened while the runway was long. A list that opens two weeks out has no such property.
Every CPT authorization names the requirement it rests on.
Curricular practical training stands on a curricular requirement. Risely's agents check the course, the catalog entry, and the role in the offer letter against each other, and hold the request that matches none of them for the DSO.
One CPT request is checked three ways
checking
A second request names no curricular requirement at all. Risely's agents hold it for the DSO with the gap written out rather than guessing at one.
Curricular practical training rests on a curricular requirement, and that is the first thing any later review looks for.
The filing stays tracked until the card arrives.
Risely's agents log the receipt, keep the timeline in front of the student and the office, and raise a case that has gone quiet. The student watches the same pipeline the DSO does, which ends most of the anxious email.
Following one filing
Recommendation drafted
for the DSO to read and sign
I-20 reissued
logged against the student's record
Receipt logged
the timeline opens to the student and the office
The case has gone quiet
surfaced to the office before the student asks
A filing that stalls is only a crisis when the office hears about it from the student.
One thing moves. The window re-runs.
An offer start date moves, a defense slips a week, and a graduation date shifts a term. Any of them changes the dates on the filing, and every one runs the same way.
The job offer moves a week
the start date has to move with it
The window recomputes
against the program end date on the record
The draft dates update
the I-765 draft follows the new start
The DSO reviews one recommendation
one student, one screen
The filing still leaves with margin
the clock started ninety days out
What changes, and how it runs.
Every graduate knows their own window
Computed from their own record and visible from ninety days out.
The office runs a queue rather than a rush
Windows open on their own dates across the whole year.
The DSO signs every recommendation
Risely's agents draft and check, and the signature stays where it belongs.
The technical read
Connects read-only to your SIS, degree audit, and international office records to start
The DSO signs every recommendation and every reissued I-20
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.