The following information is designed to assist education abroad advisers as they guide their students to obtain a student visa to study abroad. NAFSA's EA Consular Affairs Liaison Subcommittee members review these pages regularly for accuracy, but the consulate to which the student applies for a
June 19, 2001 INS memo established interim procedures for processing AC21 benefits, including H-1B cap exemptions, extensions of H-1B status, and H-1B portability. Other issues are also covered.
SEVP Spring 2010 Recertification Primer Slideshow The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) made a number of public presentations during Spring, 2010, to update schools about the F/M School Recertification Process. This is the Spring 2010 slideshow used by SEVP (updated by SEVP on April 5
Ninth Circuit Court decision holding that USCIS relied “on an improper understanding” of the regulatory requirements in denying an EB-1 petition for a worker of extraordinary ability, and that USCIS may not “unilaterally impose novel substantive or evidentiary requirements beyond those set forth at