You need F-1 Visa if you are planning to attend university or college, high school, private elementary school, seminary, conservatory, another academic institution, including a language training program.

If you are in the United States as the spouse or child of someone in the following nonimmigrant visa categories, you do not need to apply to change your status if you wish to attend school in the United States (as long as your parent or spouse maintains their original nonimmigrant status):

            A – Diplomatic and other government officials, and their families and employees.

            E – International Trade and Investors

            G – Representatives to international organizations and their families and employees.

            H – Temporary Workers

            I – Representatives of foreign media and their families

            J – Exchange Visitors and their families

            L – Intracompany Transferees

Before you can apply at a U.S. Embassy or change status to an F or M student visa, you must first apply to and be accepted by a SEVP approved school. When you are accepted by the U.S. school you plan to attend, you will be enrolled in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). You must pay the SEVIS I-901 Fee. The U.S. school will provide you with a Form I-20 to present to the consular officer or submit with your change of status application. If your spouse and/or children intend to reside with you in the United States while you study, they must obtain individual Form I-20s, but they do not pay the SEVIS fee.

The J-1 Visa provides foreign nationals with opportunities to participate in educational and cultural programs in the United States and return home to share their experiences. In order to qualify for a J-1 Visa, an individual must be sponsored by an organization which has been approved by the U.S. government to act as an exchange visitor program. There are a wide variety of such programs, including programs intended for:

            Professors and researchers scholars

            Short-term scholars

            Trainees and Intern and Flight Trainee

            College and university students

            Teachers

            Secondary school students

            Specialists

            Alien physicians

            International visitors

            Government visitors

            Camp counselors

            Au pairs

            Summer work and travel

Our law office helps foreigners get a student visa at a US Embassy abroad. We help filing visa application and scheduling the visa interview at a US Embassy. We also prepare our clients for their visa interview at the US Embassy.

We help those who arrived in the US and want to change their status to one of the student visas. We describe the process and provide the list of evidence that will prove that a foreigner has not abandoned his permanent residence abroad and has no intention to do so in the future. That after a short stay for studies in the US, he plans to return back home.

We recommend that you consult with us so that we can describe in more details the requirements of each visa type and help you get approval of your student visa application.