F VISA

VIRGINIA & MARYLAND

The F visa was created to allow foreign nationals to come to the US as non-immigrants in order to study full time at a bona fide academic institution subject to certain restrictions. Students who come to the US on a F visa can come to the US and study in an elementary school all the way to a doctoral program.

To qualify for an F-1 visa, the student must be a bona fide nonimmigrant who wishes to pursue his/her academic goals in the US. After a F-1 student completes their academic program, the student can even work for a specific period of time in an endeavor to obtain practical training.

However, to obtain practical training in the US, the student must show that the practical training obtained in the US is not available to the student in his/her home country.

If you are seeking a F visa to pursue your academic goals in the US, contact the law offices of SRIS Law Group for assistance. You can contact us online or call us via our toll free number. Our immigration attorneys have assisted many clients with obtaining F visas.

The US Immigration attorneys of SRIS, P.C. have offices in Virginia & Maryland.

In Virginia, our offices are located in Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Manassas, Richmond & Virginia Beach.

In Maryland, our offices are in Rockville & Baltimore.

Our immigration attorneys and staff at the Virginia & Maryland offices are fluent in a variety of languages, including English, Arabic, Tamil, Spanish, French, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Telugu.

INA Sec. 101. [8 U.S.C. 1101] (a) As used in this Act-15 (F)

(i) an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning, who is a bona fide student qualified to pursue a full course of study and who seeks to enter the United States temporarily and solely for the purpose of pursuing such a course of study consistent with section 214(l) at an established college, university, seminary, conservatory, academic high school, elementary school, or other academic institution or in a language training program in the United States, particularly designated by him and approved by the Attorney General after consultation with the Secretary of Education, which institution or place of study shall have agreed to report to the Attorney General the termination of attendance of each nonimmigrant student, and if any such institution of learning or place of s tudy fails to make reports promptly the approval shall be withdrawn,

(ii) the alien spouse and minor children of any alien described in clause (i) if accompanying or following to join such an alien, and

(iii) an alien who is a national of Canada or Mexico, who maintains actual residence and place of abode in the country of nationality, who is described in clause (i) except that the alien’s qualifications for and actual course of study may be full or part-time, and who commutes to the United States institution or place of study from Canada or Mexico;

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