{"id":995,"date":"2019-03-05T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/?p=995"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T23:44:18","slug":"2019-best-practices-for-student-visa-requests-and-department-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/2019\/03\/2019-best-practices-for-student-visa-requests-and-department-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Best Practices for Student Visa Requests and Department Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEMS is approaching our peak period for processing Summer and Autumn 2019 I-20s for F-1 visa applications. Please help us process your new students\u2019 I-20s as efficiently as possible; if you are offering department financial support (e.g., RA\/TA\/Fellowship\/International Tuition Waiver) to an international graduate applicant:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>complete the Graduate Funding Detail page.<\/strong>\u00a0To access, go to MGP &gt;&gt; View Applicants &gt;&gt; the student\u2019s application &gt;&gt; Funding Info tab. (We can\u2019t process the I-20 without this departmental funding information entered here.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2019 Estimates<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grad.uw.edu\/admissions\/understanding-the-application-process\/international-applicant-faqs\/financial-ability-requirement\/\">Financial Ability Requirement<\/a>\u00a0page has been updated with estimated total expenses for the 2019-2020 academic year. Please note that the official 2019 numbers have not yet been updated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/opb\/tuition-fees\/current-tuition-and-fees-dashboards\/graduate-tuition-dashboard\/\">Office of Planning &amp; Budgeting<\/a>, so you may wish rely on your 2018 numbers while expecting that small increases are likely.<\/p>\n<h3>Overview of the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/grad.uw.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Visa-Request-and-Funding-for-International-Applicants.pdf\">Visa Request and Funding for International Applicants<\/a><\/span>\u00a0guide:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Page 1: How to assist students with questions about the I-20 and resource links.<\/li>\n<li>Page 2: How to enter funding into MGP (RAs\/TAs; Fellowships; International Tuition Waivers; Non-Resident Differential Waivers).<\/li>\n<li>Page 3: A chart that explains the award breakdown for RA\/TA positions and which numbers to put into the Funding Detail Page if offering an assistantship.<\/li>\n<li>Page 4: An example of a MGP funding page for a student receiving an RA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contact:<\/h3>\n<p>If your students have questions about the visa process or forms, please share our new <a href=\"http:\/\/grad.uw.edu\/admissions\/understanding-the-application-process\/international-applicant-faqs\/admitted-international-graduate-students\/\">Admitted International Graduate Students<\/a> page with them. If you have questions, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:gemshelp@uw.edu\">gemshelp@uw.edu<\/a> or call our advisor hotline at 206.897.1487.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEMS is approaching our peak period for processing Summer and Autumn 2019 I-20s for F-1 visa applications. Please help us process your new students\u2019 I-20s as efficiently as possible; if you are offering department financial support (e.g., RA\/TA\/Fellowship\/International Tuition Waiver) to an international graduate applicant: complete the Graduate Funding Detail page.\u00a0To access, go to MGP&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/2019\/03\/2019-best-practices-for-student-visa-requests-and-department-funding\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0},"categories":[54,61,63,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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