3. After the student receives the Form I-20, an interview appointment at the closest U.S. Embassy or Consul in his or her country of residence should be arranged. At this appointment the U.S. consular official will either grant or deny an F-1 visa.
Post-Arrival: Maintaining Status - Once the student has been issued an F-1 visa and arrives on campus, KSU's Office of Global Education and Programs (OGEP) is responsible for ensuring the student remains in status according to his or her visa as well as maintaining up-to-date information on the student in the SEVIS database.
Immediately upon arrival on campus students should report to OGEP. In addition to issuing I-20s, KSU, via OGEP, is required to report the enrollment of F-1 students every semester. Also, OGEP must report in SEVIS current students that fail to enroll, maintain status, or complete their program. Schools are currently required to monitor records of the student's name, date and place of birth, country of citizenship, address, status, date of commencement of studies, degree program and field of study, practical training, termination date and reason, documents related to the student's admission, the number of credits completed per semester, and a copy of the I-20.
All this information resides in the SEVIS database rather than solely as hard files at each school. Under current federal regulations, even minor status violations (e.g., failing to inform ICE of change of major or failure to process a timely transfer) could result in loss of future employment authorization eligibility, the opportunity to return to the US after a visit abroad, or even possible deportation.
The student must check in with OGEP at the beginning of each semester to verify information in SEVIS and verify his or her program of studies timeline.
In order to keep students informed of these important changes, OGEP will conduct occasional information sessions as well as provide up-to-date information concerning the new regulations on the OGEP web page.
A student not seeking a degree from Kentucky State University is considered a non-degree student. This may include transient/visiting students, early admission (high school) students, senior citizens, post-baccalaureate students without degree intentions, and students pursuing additional undergraduate course work for teacher certification.
Students with an earned baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university who complete the regular application process and who desire to pursue a baccalaureate degree program at Kentucky State University, will be admitted to the University.
Students who are twenty-one years of age or older, or non-degree seeking, may receive conditional admission to the University (if they do not qualify for regular admission). Such students are exempted from the PCC requirements and are not required to do remedial course work. In addition, such students may obtain University credit hours through Academic Unit Challenge Examinations or by satisfactory performance on the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests.
Students, who have not attended high school for more than five years, are over the age of 25 with a GED or high school diploma and have no post-secondary education credits, are a military veteran, or are over the age of 25 and have not completed sufficient hours to be considered a transfer student, will be applying as a first-year student and will need to complete an application. (If you think that you qualify as a non-traditional student for other reasons, please consult the KSU Office of Admissions, 312 Academic Services Building, toll-free 877-367-5978.)
If the SAT or ACT was taken in high school, have the scores sent directly from the testing agency to the Office of Admissions. If the SAT or ACT tests were not taken while in high school, KSU does not require the scores for admission to the University. However, if the student declares a major that requires ACT or SAT scores, the student will need to sit for these exam(s). The student's high school must send all official high school transcripts (or official GED results, if applicable) to the Office of Admissions. Official transcripts must be sent from each high school attended.
Non-traditional students may be required to take certain placement exams in order to determine accurate course placement. Students who earned 24 semester credit hours or more of college course work after high school will have to apply as a transfer student and must submit a transcript of this work to the Office of Admissions.
A non-traditional student must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.0 for the first 24 semester credit hours. If the minimum GPA of 2.0 is not maintained, an ACT or SAT exam will be required.
A student in good standing at an accredited college may be admitted to the University as a Transient/Visiting student. To be eligible for consideration, an applicant must submit an application, a letter of good standing from the current institution, and a $30.00 application fee ($100.00 in U.S. funds for international applications). Transient status does not constitute admission or matriculation as a degree candidate. The transient is, however, subject to the same fees and regulations as a regular student except for the continuation-in-residence requirements.
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