✅ EB-3 Skilled Worker Approved - OPT/STEM-OPT to Green Card with PhD Overlap

✅ **Case Status: Approved** --- An applicant whose employer sponsored their EB-3 during OPT received approval after enrolling in a PhD program during the extended wait. The post-approval situation involves uncertainty around the employer's hiring timeline and the applicant's academic commitments starting within days. Applicant was sponsored for EB-3 by their employer while on OPT. Due to the extended EB-3 processing timeline, they enrolled in a PhD program once STEM OPT concluded. The EB-3 was subsequently approved. Now facing a compressed decision window with school starting in one week and no confirmed start date from the sponsoring employer, the applicant is asking whether part-time employment with the sponsor while continuing graduate coursework is permissible and whether it creates future compliance risks. --- **[📎 View Original Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/greencard/comments/1vhbxxj/part_time_work_after_approval/)** *Source: Reddit EB-3 search* --- *This post was automatically curated from online sources to share real case experiences with the community.*