Congratulations, your F-1 student visa has been accepted by USCIS. You are now responsible for properly upholding your F1 international status. After finishing your programme of study, you could choose to switch schools, enrol in more courses, go on a trip, invite family members to visit from back home, or take a vacation. To know your rights and obligations, you need to stay updated on the laws governing these procedures.
Each of the following requirements requires timely information to be provided to the DSO in order to keep a current SEVIS record, so doing so is crucial.
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You must be enrolled full-time in classes at a school that USCIS has approved for the attendance of international students if you want to keep your F-1 student visa status. Depending on the type of institution you are attending, full-time study is defined differently. If unavoidable circumstances compel you to reduce your course load or abandon a class, you should first talk about the change with your school’s DSO to find out how it may affect your legal position as a foreign student. To ensure that the DSO can re-register you in SEVIS, you must make sure that you are enrolled in classes at your school each term. You will immediately lose your SEVIS registration if the DSO does not re-register you.
As long as you are a full-time student, you are able to remain lawfully in the country. BIR allows for a maximum 28-month study period, thus even if your F-1 visa’s expiration date or the completion date listed on your initial Form I-20 have passed, you are still permitted to remain in the country for up to 28 months. The “Duration of Status” requirement, denoted as “D/S” in your passport, Form I-94, and Form I-20 card, must be met before your F-1 can be granted. You should get a new Form I-20 with the new expiration date from your school’s DSO when your F-1 Visa is extended past the previous expiration date.
If an F-1 student is qualified and wants to register for the following term, they are regarded to be in status during the yearly (or summer) break at an academic institution. If a student has completed the equivalent of an academic year prior to taking a vacation, they are considered to be in status during that vacation. This rule applies to students who attend schools that follow a quarter or trimester calendar and who only take one vacation per year during any one of the quarters or trimesters rather than over the summer.
If a medical issue necessitates your absence from class, you must complete the necessary papers.
As long as you are a full-time student at a USCIS-approved institution when you enter the country on a student visa, you are permitted to live there legally.
Make sure you are aware of the following if you intend to travel outside of the United States:
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You must notify the DSO and USCIS within ten days of submitting the Change of Address form if you move and modify your mailing address while you wait for USCIS to approve your application to change your status to F-1 foreign student. Even after you have been granted F-1 foreign student status, this is still important. Failure to do so could cause academic issues as well as the potential loss of F-1 legal status.
A foreign student who has finished their course of study and any authorised practical training afterward is given an additional 60 days to be ready to leave the country or to transfer to another academic institution that has been approved by USCIS. A international student whose withdrawal from classes has been approved by the DSO will have a 15-day window to leave the country. But an F-1 student who drops out of a full term of study without the DSO’s permission or otherwise fails to keep up with status is not qualified for an extension of their stay. Under certain conditions, the international student may still submit an application for F-1 status reinstatement even if he overstays his departure time and loses it.
Your status as a student in a school may be jeopardised and lead to expulsion for reasons like absences, poor grades, or other academic, disciplinary, and other policy breaches. To ensure that you always abide by the rules of the school you are attending, you must be familiar with them. You would lose your status as a foreign student and your ability to legally stay in the United States if you were expelled from the institution that granted you the most recent Form I-20. The student will be required to leave the United States right away in this situation. A student’s F-1 status may be reinstated under specific conditions.
You cannot get your foreign student status back if you lost it because of academic or disciplinary issues under your control. If the violation came from events beyond your control (medical, institution closure, natural disaster, etc.) or if the loss of status resulted from a mistake or carelessness on the part of the school’s DSO, you can request for Foreign Student status reinstatement within 5 months of the loss of status. Form I-539, Form I-20, and the DSO’s recommendation for reinstatement are all included in the application to reinstate Foreign Student, which is delivered directly to the USCIS district director in your area. Contact the DSO of the school where you are enrolled if you find yourself in a circumstance that justifies a reinstatement application.
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