回复：Help: OPT & H1B

Your lawyer is right, you can use 2005 quota because your can afford to wait until October 2004. But filing should be within 6 months of start date, now is too early (if filing now, your start date needs to be set no later than April.) You can file early next year with regular processing, set a start date in July or August that we guess will be out-of-2004-quota, so BCIS may approve you in July or August but specify your approved starting on 10-1-2004 (Using 2005 quota).