I am a PhD student on F1 visa (applies work authorization restrictions). I am paid as RA in our department (20 hours/week). I have an internship offer for summer which extends through first few weeks of fall semester. Now my question is whether it is allowed to switch from (paid) full-time internship to RAship, given that I will be an intern (off-campus) for first few weeks of fall and back to school for the rest of the semester? Or do you suggest I change my full-time internship to part-time for fall semester?
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1This is a question for the International student office of your university, or other authority such as immigration service. We are not able to give you any authoritive answer.– NobodyCommented May 28, 2015 at 3:58
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@scaaahu It's much more efficient to share the information on Internet than having each F1 asking individually to the ISO…– Franck DernoncourtCommented May 28, 2015 at 4:56
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It's certainly more efficient to share information here, but I worry that it's risky. If the ISO is doing its job properly, then their answers will be reliable and will take into account any subtleties or technicalities regarding a particular student's situation. I'm not convinced that most voters on this site can predict what sort of technicalities might arise with work authorization, so we're not in a position to rate or filter this information. (At least I'm not, and I'd be surprised if many people here were.)– Anonymous MathematicianCommented May 28, 2015 at 6:02
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I do not have enough reputations to add comment, so I'm adding this answer. Thank you all for your help. I found out that there are a couple of restrictions to switching between these two. I will edit my answer as soon as I make sure about the limitations from the payment perspective.– user6623Commented May 29, 2015 at 14:31
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