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I'm in a bit of visa problem here and I still haven't secured an F1 student visa yet. I'll try everything I can to get my visa in time and not miss the Orientation or the start of school. sigh!

Anyone know what options do I have if i'll be coming late? like defer this quarter, late registration, what?

hope everything will work out fine.

btw, don't forget me in my absence.

By Jason (Jason) on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 06:04 am: Edit

Well, I assume you've contacted the Stanford Bechtel International Centre (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/). If you haven't, you should do so immediately. I'm pretty sure they'll be able to help you out.

Would it be possible for you to enter the US on a standard tourist visa, and then try to sort out the visa issue once you're over here?

By Khoa019 (Khoa019) on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 06:36 am: Edit

Dont think that works. Schools cant do anything. US consulates/embassies are especially strict about that when it comes to Asian countries such as China and Vietnam ( where I'm from). Two of my friends are in the same situation. (One will be a grad student at Stanford and it took him more then 2 months to sort out this whole visa mess. The other is from Grinnel and she's stuck in Viet for 1 sem sad huh). You need to ask the consulate officer what exactly they need in order to issue you a visa. that's the only hint I could give

By Imblue (Imblue) on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 02:20 pm: Edit

I think you can miss up to 2 weeks of classes and still be fine. After that, they might be able to make an exception for you, but I don't think missing that much class out of 10 weeks is a good way to start college anyway. I'm sure you should have no problem starting in winter quarter if this visa problem takes a long time.