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Maintaining Valid F-1 or J-1 Student Status
Requirements to maintain status
To maintain valid F-1 or J-1 status, you must adhere to the following requirements:
- Attend the University of Rochester, as authorized by your SEVIS I-20 or DS-2019.
- Pursue a full-time course of study each and every academic term, unless otherwise authorized for a reduced course load in advance by ISO.
- Maintain active registration each term and make normal progress toward your degree until you complete all requirements or transfer to a new school.
- Keep your passport valid at all times and at least 6 months into the future.
- Follow proper immigration procedures to extend your stay, change your educational level, or transfer schools, as needed.
- Adhere to all grace period rules and SEVIS reporting deadlines.
- F-1 and J-1 students cannot work off campus without written authorization prior to the start of employment.
- Limit on-campus employment to 20 hours per week when classes are in session.
- J-1 students must have written authorization prior to the start of on campus employment.
For J-1 students: Maintain active health insurance and supplemental medical evacuation coverage for yourself and any dependents.
- Maintain active and timely communication with ISO at all times.
- Notify ISO of any changes to the information listed on your I-20 or DS-2019.
- Notify ISO of any address changes within 10 days.
- Please use UR Student to maintain your current address information.
- It is critical that you use the appropriate ‘Usage Tags’ in UR Student to send the correct address details to ISO. Please follow these guidelines:
- If you live in University housing, this data will pass to ISO directly and does not need to be maintained on your address panel in UR Student. However, if your campus housing arrangements change, please contact Residential Life to ensure that your housing assignment is updated or removed. Otherwise, this data will continue to feed to ISO instead of any address you enter manually to UR Student.
- Your off-campus US Residential Address must be tagged for Usage as “Where you live while at school”.
- Your Foreign Permanent Residential Address must be tagged for Usage as “Where you live when you’re not in school, if outside of the USA”.
- Your US Mailing Address must be tagged for Usage as “Where you get your mail”.
- Please reference the University IT tutorial on Updating an Address in UR Student (PDF), as needed.
- Note: This system will not make updates to your records in HRMS, or the University’s Bursar’s Office (for billing). You must access those records directly or contact the appropriate offices to make any address changes.