American Student Visa: Procedures, Recommendations

and Resources

This article is pertaining to the information that is essential

for students, who desire to go abroad for education. Obviously, we will depict the
information regarding American Student Visa. It is because we are convinced that
America still is the best place to go for studies. We will provide several rationales
supporting this claim. Nevertheless, primary purpose of this article is to bring
imperative information in your perusal and have you equipped with knowledge and
tools that are essential for your success in acquiring student visa and select a best
and affordable educational institution that rest over your needs.

This article is divided in three major sections; procedure,

recommendation and resources. First section will depict the procedure for you to
obtain student visa. Second section will give you recommendations, which you are
advised to take them for your better and affordable student experience and for your
chances to become independent as soon as possible. Third section will provide you
with more resources, so you can explore your concerns and opportunities further.

1. Procedure

First purpose of this article is to depict you the whole

procedure of obtaining visa in a very simple and comprehensible format. In this
part, we will try our best to purport various stages that you will experience and will
go through until you will arrive to your institution in America. Further, this part
will peruse you regarding actions you need to take in each stage.

At first you need to be familiar with kinds of visas that are allocated for students.

F-1 Academic Students

F-2 Spouses and children
F-3 Canadian or Mexican national academic commuter
students
M-1 Vocational Students
 Now it is very simple to understand. F category is for students, who want
to get academic studies including language courses. In this category, you really
don’t have any opportunity to earn your expenses good enough. You will have only
20 hours to work. These 20 hours of work most probably will be in campus only.

On the other hand, M category is for students, who want to achieve

vocational training in vocational training schools. These schools even include flight
schools and well named trade schools in America. So, you really don’t have to
presume that this don’t worth it. It is sometimes of an opposite. Like American
Technical Institute is a very reputable trade school in Dallas, Texas and guarantees
you to be employed in one of the name brand company afterwards.

Good thing about M category visa is that you are allowed to work at
least 40 hours if it is required for you to gain skills in your education, and this is the
case most of the time. However, downside is that these schools are between $ 20,000
to $ 40,000 and charge full fees before inception of classes.

Regardless, which ever school you apply for, it must be SEVP

certified. SEVP stands for “The Student and Exchange Visitor Program.” SEVP is
designed to help Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of State
(DOS) in order to efficiently monitor school and exchange programs and to monitor
M, F and J category visas.

In order to efficiently monitor your educational experiences and

your well being, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of State
(DOS) has developed an Internet-based system, which is called (SEVIS). SEVIS
stands for “Student and Exchange Visitor Information System.”

SEVIS has several functions via which you are monitored and your
information is updated by various departments and institutions. One, SEVIS
maintains accurate and current information on non-immigrant students (F and M
visas), exchange visitors (J visa), and their dependents (F-2, M-2 and J-2). Two,
SEVIS enables schools and program sponsors to transmit mandatory information
and event notifications via the Internet, to the DHS and DOS throughout a student
or exchange visitor’s stay in the U.S.A.
 So, acquiring student visa has several steps. First, you will find a good
and affordable school to be admitted in. This step is fully defined in a section of
recommendations.

Second, you will apply for admission into a school.

Third, you will fill up SEVIS documents. Your school will send you these
documents, once you will be admitted to school. After receiving SEVIS documents
filled by you, your school will issue you SEVIS generated I-20. You have to make
sure that you must receive SEVIS generated I-20 from your school. It is because
SEVIS generated I-20 is only accepted to U.S. Embassy now.

You have to pay fees for your SEVIS registration. SEVIS fees depends on
type of student visa you will seek. Mostly, it runs about $200.

Fourth, you will develop your educational stay plan before you go
with I-20 to your visa interview. You may delve on Internet to find a good
educational stay plan. It does not have to be very formal. Instead, it has to be
persuasive with real and comprehensible planning. Educational stay plan has three
main benefits. One, educational stay plan will convince your visa officer that you
are serious about your future education. Two, it will bring in visa officer
acknowledgment that you have done explicit and efficient research and investigation
regarding your stay in America, and now you are well acquainted with society,
social atmosphere and necessary detail of the city you are planning to go in. Three,
it will bring clear picture in visa officer cognizance regarding your funds and your
expenses during your educational stay. This clear elicitation of your educational
stay will immediately satisfy the visa officer that you can afford your educational
stay smoothly and enunciate yourself comfortably in a city.

Fifth, you will call your nearest U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate for visa
interview. You will go to your interview with your SEVIS generated I-20, receipt of
payment for SEVIS and educational stay plan. At first, your visa officer will go
inside and ensure your SEVIS registration via their online database. Once ensured,
visa officer will conduct your interview. During interview, you will present your
educational stay plan. Your visa officer may skim over the summary of your
educational stay plan. You must present your summary at the beginning of your
plan. Although, summary is a part that needs to be developed at last when you
preparing your plan at home. Once understand your written plan, visa officer will
ask you few questions to determine your intention and clear understanding of your
educational stay. Your visa officer will also gauge your confidence by looking in
your eyes and observing all over of your demeanor. You must be confident and
respond answers prudently. When you do not know a specific answer, provide your
general understanding with confidence. For example, if visa officer ask you a
question that have you found any affordable apartment near your college, you may
answer that you have not found a particular one but you have visited area from
google map and you have found few apartments, which deems affordable, on
dexknow.com or apartment guide, and once visa will be issued, you will call them to
find a better deal.

IMPORTANT: There is something you must be aware of. It is also a

requirement to issue you a student visa. You also have to demonstrate to visa
officer during interview the following;

• You have a residence abroad, with no immediate intension of abandoning

that residence. It means that in your country, you have at least home of yours
or parents or who ever where you are decided to stay.
• You are intended to depart United States at completion of your studies. So,
you don’t want to have intention right away to stay permanently in U.S.A.
Instead, once you are qualified, several companies will hire you and will
apply for your employment visa. This means, you must confidently purport
to visa officer that you are planning to come back ----- You never show
intention to be permanently stayed when seeking educational visa, and
• You or your sponsor does posses sufficient funds to pursue your studies.

Now, once visa will be issued, it is not guaranteed that you have permission
to have educational stay in U.S.A. It is only a permission to arrive a port of entry
where immigration officer at port will take your brief interview and will decide your
educational stay.

2. Recommendations

Now, this is the part that will accentuate your understanding regarding
school choices in America. However, first we want to establish our claim that
America is the best place to study. It is because American schools are most
affordable and are best in rendering education.

If you have any doubt about American schools to be most affordable,

we recommend you to perform little investigation. Go on several sites of American,
English, Canadian and Australian community college website. Now, develop an
excel sheet on which you will construct a list of several community college website,
their states or provinces, degrees offer (you may just want to present degrees you
are interested in, since these colleges confer many degrees in their campuses), price
per credit hour for foreign student, total cost per semester and total cost per year.
This will present you a clear contrast and comparison.
 In result, we are confident that you will be surprise! Like, community colleges
in New Mexico U.S.A. and Texas U.S.A. are incomparably cheaper and affordable.
Further, Texas is one of the best and most advance place for studies in the world.
Same results you will find if you will compare universities in those countries.

So, at last our recommendation is to acquire two year degree in community

college in U.S.A. if you are from underdeveloped country, which currency is
consistently deteriorating. It is the cheapest rout and American Associate Degree is
acceptable all over developed countries. So, your chances to immigrate any where
in the world and acquire a good job immediately increment.

Associate Degree approach is like stairs. It is first stair and if you climb this,
you are open to acquire any of your educational dreams. Their credit hours are
acceptable for further graduation and you are capable to gain a well paid job from
which you can afford rest of your studies.

It is highly advisable to gain technical associate degree, which must be

demandable in your country and other parts of the world. So, do some due
diligence if you want to immigrate to a particular country including U.S.A.
Choosing a right associate degree is your foundation for your success and you must
be sure 100 % before entering into a profession. You may change it later on to your
choice. Nevertheless, once you are poor, your first priority is to able yourself earn
good income and escape an underdeveloped country.

Going to community college means you will save lots of money. This money
can be used for your living expenses. In result, your visa officer can be more
convinced that you can afford your educational stay with amount of money you will
show as evidence. Moreover, community colleges are keen in receiving foreign
students, since they have less educational funds available as compared to
universities.

To learn benefits of Community Colleges visit this site…..

http://www.america.gov/community-colleges.html

Here is some websites for you to visit and compare their rates with other countries.
You need to have at least 10 community colleges from each country (about each
from each state or province). Here are two as examples:
http://www.dcccd.edu/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.cnm.edu/

However, if you can afford $ 20,000 to $ 50,000 upfront and want to work
while you are studying, trade schools can be good choice. Although, you have to
ensure that they are recognized and famous ones. Otherwise, they don’t worth any
thing. Good examples are as follows:

http://www.ati.edu/

http://www.lincolnedu.com/schools/lincoln-technical-institute

http://www.artinstitutes.edu/dallas/

3. Resources

At last, here are some more resources from which you can make yourself
a well acquainted with American educational institutions and have heed over to find
out that how they operate.

http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.communitycollege.com/

http://www.cset.sp.utoledo.edu/twoyrcol.html

http://www.globalcomputing.com/american-universities.htm
http://communitycollegeusa.com/

http://www.tradevocationalschools.com/