{"id":772,"date":"2025-01-22T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/?page_id=772"},"modified":"2025-01-22T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:21:58","slug":"hours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/international\/hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrictions on Hours Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to USCIS regulations, you may not work more than 20 hours per week while classes are in session. You may work full time during vacation periods: winter intersession, spring break, and summer recess.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly-salaried paid teaching fellows, and research assistants are commonly considered to be working twenty hours a week and therefore <strong>cannot<\/strong> also work in an hourly-paid position during the academic year. If your department\u2019s requirement is less than 20 hours per week, you may have another job, but the combined weekly hours for both jobs <strong>must not<\/strong> exceed 20 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Residence Assistants working in Boston University dormitories are considered to working 20 hours per week and therefore <strong>cannot<\/strong> work in another position during the academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to USCIS regulations, you may not work more than 20 hours per week while classes are in session. You may work full time during vacation periods: winter intersession, spring break, and summer recess. Weekly-salaried paid teaching fellows, and research assistants are commonly considered to be working twenty hours a week and therefore cannot also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1183,"featured_media":0,"parent":547,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772\/revisions\/773"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}