Students
Specific information for Exchange Students
Specific information for Degree Seeking Students
Visa issues for international students
Additional Resources and Orientation Information
The Office of International Education and Development is happy to offer the following services to international students:
Before students arrive:
- Issue of DS-2019s and I-20s
- Mailing of a pre-arrival packet to guide international students as they plan their arrival to ASU
- Email and phone communication to answer incoming students’ questions
- A host family that students can begin to establish a relationship with before they arrive
- An App Pear that students can begin to establish a relationship with before they arrive
- Mail service- OIED will hold packages that students order before they arrive in the office
- Make housing arrangements for exchange students and graduate students who wish to live in Mountaineer Apartments
During Attendance:
- Provide airport pick-up and drop-off once each semester
- International student orientation designed specifically for international students’ needs
- Academic advising for exchange students
- Issue health insurance and help with any health needs
- Assistance setting up a bank account
- Assistance setting up a cell phone account
- Advising on immigration issues by appointment or by drop-ins
- Advising and mentoring on any issue an international student wishes to discuss by appointment or by drops-ins
- Update students DS2019s and I-20s as necessary
- Issue Curricular Practical Training, Pre-Completion Practical Training and Post-Completion Practical Training to eligible students
- Issue Academic Training to eligible students
- Assist with the completion of FNIS forms
- Tax software for international visitors: CINTAX
- Assist students with obtaining a social security card with transportation to the office and interve if there is any problem obtaining the card
- Email and phone communication to answer students’ questions
- Academic support by monitoring students’ progress through students’ advisors
- “This, too, is America”- a series of classes and excursions for international students. There is an annual trip to Washington, D.C. and many others.
- Transportation assistance
- Provide some direction on any legal issues
- Help students’ visiting families to obtain Visas
- Provide an array of social programming designed to help international students know the local community
- Award two international student scholarships per year
- Intervene with any relevant bureaucratic problems
After graduation
- Support Optional Practical Training
- Maintain students’ records indefinitely
Forms and Instructions
- DS-2019 Information Form (PDF 32.66K)
- Exchange Student Application form (PDF 245K)
- Extension Instructions (PDF 23K)
- Extension Request Form (PDF 19K)
- Transfer to ASU request form (PDF 12K)
- Transfer OUT of ASU request form (PDF 15K)
- Work eligibility for Practical Training for F Visa Students (PPT 421K)
- Work eligibility for Practical Training STEM extention for F Visa Students (PPT 160K)
- OPT Instructions (PDF 27K)
- OPT Request form (PDF 15K)
- CPT Instructions (PDF 26K)
- CPT Request form (PDF 19K)
- Academic Training (PDF 46K)
