Please read this information as a guide to help you with your remote studies and to maintain valid immigration status.
Contents:
- New student at WSU enrolled in face-to-face classes?
- Full-time enrollment requirements
- Deadline to apply for a graduate degree – March 5, 2021
- OPT information session – Jan. 26, 2021
- Alumni Association webinar “Digital Flourishing: Strategies for Fostering Wellness (Online)”
- New student at WSU enrolled in face-to-face classes?
Then you need to check in with ISSS or your local DSO so we can register your SEVIS record and verify with the U.S government that you are in status. What do you need to do?
Pullman campus – please log in to https://mypassport.wsu.edu and complete the Orientation Check-In requirements. We will need the following two things to register you:
- Student Document Check In
- Emergency Contact
Not based on the Pullman campus? Please contact your local DSO to arrange a Zoom meeting to do your check in and document review. Information on your local contact can be found at the bottom of this email.
- Full-time enrollment requirements
As part of your F-1 or J-1 status, you are required to be enrolled full time unless you have authorization from ISSS to drop below full-time enrollment.
Within 30 days of the semester start date or your I-20 or DS2019 start date (if starting this term) you must be enrolled in the following:
- Undergraduate students: 12 credits
- Graduate students: 10 credits
If you need to drop below full-time enrollment, please meet with an ISSS advisor or contact us (ip.intlservices@wsu.edu or 509-335-4508) to learn more about applying for a reduced course load.
- Deadline to apply for a graduate degree – March 5, 2021
Are you a graduate student completing your program in spring 2021? Then make sure you apply to graduate by March 5!
Information on how to apply for your graduate degree (or graduate certificate) can be found here: https://gradschool.wsu.edu/graduation-application/.
- OPT information session – Jan. 26, 2021
Want to know more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) or planning to apply due to your graduation this spring? Then attend our upcoming information session.
Jan. 26, 2021 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/98367106651?pwd=QXJKYjg2NlAxcGpjSkJUWXdjYStNQT09
Meeting ID: 983 6710 6651
Passcode: 386556
- Alumni Association webinar “Digital Flourishing: Strategies for Fostering Wellness (Online)”
“Happiness expert Amy Blankson will present a new digital flourishing model that will help you self-assess and strategize how to create a dynamic sense of balance in an otherwise unpredictable world.” To register please visit here.
This Advisory and previous issues are posted at https://ip.wsu.edu/on-campus/immigration-advisories.
If you have any questions about the above announcements, please contact International Student and Scholar Services.
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- WSU Pullman students contact +1 509-335-4508 or ip.intlservices@wsu.edu
- WSU Vancouver students contact Caitlyn Schock at +1 360-546-9514 or van.dso@wsu.edu
- WSU Spokane students contact Kristie Brink at +1 509-358-7963 or kkclark@wsu.edu
- WSU Everett students contact Anna McLeod at +1 425-405-1727 or anna.mcleod2@wsu.edu
- WSU Tri-Cities students contact Karina Barajas at +1 509-372-7358 or karina.barajas@wsu.edu
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Office of International Programs
PO Box 645121, Pullman, WA, 99164-5121 USA