UB International Student Services

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Good morning everyone. My name is Christopher Connor, Assist Indian chief enrollment officer in the school of engineering and Applied Sciences were delighted to have you join us this morning. Today we will be having a presentation given to you by U bees, international student services office regarding the services that they offer, as well as giving you the opportunity to ask questions. One thing I do want to begin with again as a message to all of you is that we at the University at Buffalo in the school of engineering and Applied Sciences.

And at the University of Buffalo are extremely mindful of the COVID-19 situation. We're all lit living this together. We are all experiencing the same disruptions to our daily lives as you are. However, we wanted you to know that we are still in this with you. We are very interested in having you join us at the University. As of now, our plan is business. As usual. We fully expect to be beginning this semester in fall 2020, but at the same time we were aware of the fluid nature of the situation.

Wanted to let you know that we are also very mindful of options that may impact you for your education. Please keep in mind as you go through this journey with us that we are always looking for opportunities to explore. To ensure that you are able to have your education provided to you by the school of engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo and we look forward to being able to work with you as we continue this journey. I would like to now pass the microphone over to our guests from.

The Office of international education. I'd like to introduce Katie Tadene who leads the office of International Education Student Services office.

Thank you very much.

Thank you Chris. Thanks so much how everyone, uhm?

My name is Katie Tadene. I am the assistant vice Provost and director for the office of international student services, and this office serves students.

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You know we are at home working from home and I have two young children. I hope that doesn't happen again, so forgive me, but I am the again the assistant vice Provost and director Anne. I will talk a little bit about our office and what we do in just a few minutes. But really, first I just want to make sure that we congratulate you on your admission. Do you be? It is a wonderful University in the most wonderful place, Buffalo, NY, which is also my hometown, and I love it very much so.

We're going to get started and talk a little bit about ISS as we are known on campus. We serve as a resource and advocate for all international students at you be we have about 4500 international students registered currently with an additional 2500 students who are working off campus after graduating.

Quite a large international student population that we serve. We monitor our government regulations and make sure that you be stays in. Compliance is really important job and it make sure that you be continued to host international students on campus. We also do a lot of programming and that's just words for events. Both fun, educational, academic support service. We do programming that helps you.

Get better acclimated to Buffalo to you, be and also to your domestic and international peers on campus.

We wanted to 1st give just like Chris had mentioned, a quick COVID-19 in fall 2020 update. I'm sure we will be answering some of those questions later, but just to address a few of them now, our current situation is that we are teaching on line just like across the USS institutions moved on line in March. So we are doing that. There is a wonderful yubico VAT 19 FA Q Page. I would highly recommend.

Hum spending some time on that page, reading through it might answer a lot of your questions about what's currently happening at you be.

Of course we're getting lots of questions about fall. We do not yet at no or anticipate a change regarding fall enrollment. Obviously these are extraordinary times, and the institution is reviewing kind of the full picture and looking at the what kind of the prospects are for fall and so. Of course, we would absolutely let note let students know as soon as we do.

About what's happening for fall, but right now we are still on for in person classes in the fall, so that's what we can say right now. Officially, if that were to change, we would absolutely let students know immediately.

So let's talk about how we prepare for an in-person arrival to you. Be in the fall.

What we need you to do is activate your you be account that's you be it name and a unique password was sent to you via email. If you're having any trouble, you can visit the UBIT website and there is assistant for students who need help with their password.

Next, after you activate your, you be account you would start the new international student check-in checklist. That is something I'll talk about in more detail in a few minutes. It is not live yet. It needs some tweaking and then it will be live soon. You will want to use your I-20 to pay your sevis fee. If you're going to apply for on campus housing, you can do that. You should do that by June 1st.

Um, highly recommend getting your health and immunization forms done and submit those in May if possible, and I would highly recommend doing that by fax. That's the best way to do that. And then Lastly, when you're able, you will apply for your USA Visa.

So just a little bit more about this check in that we talked about.

Our office is responsible for gathering your immigration document. So the first thing that we need to do is gather your signed by 20 your visa passport documents from you. Again, this is coming soon. It is not ready yet. It will be available on our website and you will receive an email that check in is ready to start. Once it is live.

The UM portal where you will go is called my ISS. It's on line check in system with electronic forms where you will upload and complete pre arrival tasks. So it's a guided system that allows you to both report information and also chekov items that you need to do before arriving.

Lastly, after June 1st, you'll be able to upload your visa. We hope that the visa appointments will open soon and be able to do that. Then you're hold gets lifted. So there is a hold from ISS right now on your accounts or will be soon and that hold prevents course registration. So we need your visa in order for us to remove your Holt. If classes will be in person this fall.

So Step 2 would be arrival. You're going to arrive in the US and complete check in. There is a document when you arrive in US called the I-90 Four. It's the document that proves that you entered the US in F1 or J1 status legally.

That document is the final document for check in. Then you'll enjoy international student orientation and welcome Series A week of events. Well, the first week of events is really to better acclimate you to campus and then we continue that program for up to four to five weeks where we introduce you to the Buffalo area and more services on campus. You'll also have the opportunity to attend school of engineering and Applied Sciences orientation programs.

And events.

The international student orientation and welcome series is a time for you to learn more about your immigration status because you do have a responsibility to fully understand and be responsible for that status. We will discuss campus safety, academic success. We have a vendor fair so you can begin a bank account, a wireless or phone account will also have information on campus employment.

And just different fund information about becoming part of UBS community. So Pride and traditions and really just kind of better understanding. All that's here to help you with your transition.

Orientation generally is going to begin on August 24th on a Monday, but we know that graduate students generally will arrive to campus earlier in August, and then it's perfectly fine. That is not a problem, and we understand that it does benefit you to arrive a little earlier to look for housing in a lot of cases.

I want to talk a little bit about on campus and off campus employment. I know that this is very important to international students, so I wanted to make sure you had just a general some general information about on campus and off campus employment here at you be.

On campus employment, you can work 20 hours per week, um, during the school semester when classes are in session. When they are not, that would be fall or winter break and summer break. You can work full time, which is up to 40 hours.

So we recommend using career services. They have a tool called handshake. It is where all on campus employment is posted. In addition, when you come to campus we have a on campus employment vendor fair or fare where you can meet different campus entities that are looking for on campus employees. So it's a great way to have a different network across campus to make some extra.

Funding for yourself to keep and really just to have maybe improve your English and meet new people.

You may be familiar with CPT curricular practical training. You can think about this as work authorization that allows for training experiences. So the purpose of CBT is to gain more experience in your field of study during your course of Education.

So those are generally what we would call internships practicums things like that projects where you work with an employer off campus.

We're not going to go into detail on eligibility or.

Or anything like that for incoming students, but we do hold workshops each semester regarding CPT ano PT, and we have lots of resources on our website with a lot of information, so I encourage you to read through that.

OPT if you have heard of Opete is optional practical training. This is the employment that you do after graduation and you apply through usci S with our help and you receive to star of one year work authorization card. If you are in a stem field which if you are looking to join the school of engineering and applied Sciences you will be in a stem degree.

You would have an additional 20, four months, so again it has to be related to your major and it is after graduation. That's really the best or the most you really need to know. Now, of course there's a lot more that goes into applying to both CPT and Opete, and you can learn more about that once you get here.

So I compiled a few of our most frequent, frequently asked questions to address those. Maybe before you worry and put those in the chat.

If you're having trouble with your UBIT account, there is the web link here available to you. We know that you won't be able to access check in if you don't activate your you be ID account, so it's really important that you do that since the check in is not live just yet. It's important to take this time to make sure that you can get into your you be it account now.

We're receiving lot of questions about will taking on line courses in the fall. If you be is on line, impact your ability to obtain AUS student Visa and I think this is a really interesting question and the answer is no. You are your best advocate at the visa interview and using your dedication to studying on line an having the perseverance to take some online courses.

Really shows your commitment to your education, and that's something that you would communicate with. the US consular officer in your visa appointment.

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It really does show that you have started the degree in that obviously right now across the world. Everyone understands that many students may have to start their degree on line and that is not a negative for you or for others who are trying to get a visa in the future.

Is you be considering a change to the dates of the fall term? We know that you be administrators are assessing all options for the fall semester. If this situation changes and disruptions to enrollment do occur, we, as I said earlier, we will communicate with our new students immediately, just as we will have to communicate to our current students again, we I don't have anymore information on potential.

Come on line versus in person as Chris mentioned and we don't know if this semester will have any changes as far as start dates or end dates. All options are being considered in this most unprecedented time.

Lastly, will the COVID-19 situation impact experiential learning? Experiential learning would include things like internships, CPT projects.

We're working very closely ISS with the school of engineering and Applied Sciences to address student concerns around CPT. We know that you have questions about CPT and when you might be eligible to use it. There are some limitations as you might be aware by US regulations, but we are exploring all options with the school to make sure that students who are able and willing can take opportunities.

For experiential learning, again, I know how valuable CBT is for our students, and it's really important for both career readiness and personal growth and academic progress. So it is something that we're looking at very, very closely, and we're talking about daily with the administrators in the school.

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So we're going to get into a good day here in a few minutes, but I do want to just make sure you know that we, no matter how we are together in the fall semester, whether it's virtually or in person, I am very much looking forward to welcoming you to Buffalo and to you. Be the wonderful school, a wonderful community, and we're really excited that you've applied and been accepted, and we really hope to see you there.

This is some information for you. This is our email address and contact information, and in case you have follow up questions, you can send those to our our website or I'm sorry to our email address.

And I think now we are gonna get into answering some questions for you. Obviously we went very quickly through some of this information so I can scroll back if you want to go back to a topic to address it.

So I'm gonna start by trying to address some general questions and I know I have some wonderful staff who are also answering some questions from you in the chat.

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I understand that there's a storm in India. I don't know in what areas, and I've heard and I see that there is some issue with Internet connectivity. I believe the presentation will be available to students.

If, if they're not able to access, or if the connectivity is creating issues, I'm happy to help ensure that you're able to get this presentation.

OK, so if you have questions for me, um, I see some of them are being answered, but let me just keep scrolling.

If questions about health, an immunization forms, we understand that sometimes it's hard to access forms if you're.

Doctors are not seeing patients. The best thing to do it would be to contact them and ask if they can submit your immunizations for you via fax and you can provide them that information. I know our health office is expecting an array of materials from students and so they're they're able to accept things that are directly from your physician, if not directly from you.

Hey Katie, can you hear me?

Yes.

OK, one of the questions that we have in here is do you need a visa to take online courses?

You do not need a visa if you are going to register on line an from home. The visa will only be necessary when you plan to physically enter the US to start in person classes.

OK, what about students who have already paid their sevis fee? And then they decide to defer? Can they use the same fee payment and defer their I-20 to the next semester?

Yes, and that is not a problem. The fee we actually will work with you to defer your service record and so your fee just stays attached to the same service record. It's a very easy process. It doesn't involve any actions on your part as far as the service fee.

OK, there's also some other questions and concerns about starting on line courses and then applying for a Visa and it being rejected. Can you maybe talk about that one more time?

Sure, sure.

The US visa process is looking at candidates to assess their ability and desire to return to the US return to their home country. It's called nonimmigrant. That's the F Visa is a nonimmigrant status. Nonimmigrant means that you do not plan to migrate immigrate to the United States forever, so the most important piece.

Of your visa appointment is confirming that you have home country intent that you were that you plan to return home the concept of taking some courses on line does not interfere with your intentions of returning home, so therefore there's really no connection. I know it's a rumor, and so I'm here to dispel it that there's really no connect negative connection to taking on line courses and then trying to get a visa.

It could be that in the past visa officers questioned the length of edge.

Location if you had taken some courses on line, but that is no longer a reality because of COVID-19, there is absolutely going to be an understanding across the consulates that students likely will take sometimes summer fall, potentially spring on line and that is perfectly acceptable to the US government. They don't have any negative impression of that idea.

OK, so we also have some questions about students that if they aren't able to come for fallen, they choose to study on line. Will they need an updated or New I-20 for spring?

Yes, if we defer your thumb. When I say defer it, there are two ways to defer an academic defer and AC Vista, for which is the I-20. We will defer your I-20 start date to the spring semester and then we will malua new I-20 and so we're prepared to do that for any student that starts courses in person in spring rather than fall.

And in the school of engineering, all the students who are accepted, you fill out your intent to enroll. You are able to edit your intent to enroll at anytime. It will still be posted in your portal under the form section. We are still asking that you Please wait until July 15th to decide if your going to defer. We're still waiting to see what will happen for fall, obviously, and once we know that we will communicate with you. And then of course we will help lead you through the deferral process if that is something your interested in doing.

We, in the academic unit, need to know that you're deferring.

So we can issue you and you, um admission letter and that is what will trigger your deferral of your I-20. With I double ***. So we will have to coordinate together to make sure that we are both doing the deferral both at the academic and at the immigration level so I know there's going to be a lot of questions about that. An right now we don't have a clear answer of if I start on line, How do I enroll and then defer my 20? We will work that out.

For you, and communicate that to you, so please don't worry about that. Uh, we will make sure it's clearly communicated to you when we have a decision on fall.

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We have some questions about the trump exempt president Trump's. Executive order were still really assessing it right now, but he did post or the White House did post some details. I am happy to say that the Non Immigrant Review is underway and so that means that for the next 30 days trump and his cabinet are looking at the Non Immigrant category. So we don't have.

Any detailed information on what they may or may not come back with regarding non immigrants? Currently the policy is just addressing immigrants. F1 students are not immigrants, they are non immigrants. So that's good news for now. We will and are on top of watching this very closely, but for right now it is just addressing immigrants who have replied or who are applying for green cards. So that's all we know right now of course anymore or further detail we will.

Provide that for you.

Oh also, I see a lot of questions about paying your tuition deposit. We ask that you pay your tuition deposit once you know that you want to attend the University at Buffalo. This religious helps us plan for the future to make sure we have enough courses in the classes that are most popular to our students in different majors. So we ask that you pay the tuition deposit as soon as you can. If you decide to defer that tuition deposit will move with you.

And just so you know, the tuition deposit is actually a credit that goes on your account and can be used towards your tuition and fees. It's not an additional payment, it's not an additional cost, so you will not be losing that if you enroll in the at the University of Buffalo. So again, we understand that there's a lot of confusion up in the air, a lot of decisions that still need to be made. However, if you've made the decision that you will enroll at the University at Buffalo, we ask that you pay that tuition deposit.

As soon as you can again, it just helps us plan.

And it will go right on your account. We will not. You won't lose that if you decide to defer.

Questions about the sevis fee. There's not a particular deadline to pay the fee, but in order to apply for a visa appointment, you do have to have a receipt of paying the service fee. So in a way that would be something I would encourage you to do as soon as possible, if not in the month of May, because that then.

Allows you, once the consulates open, which may have been very drastically and without much notice. You may be able to jump in and get in line for a visa appointment, so I would encourage you to make sure that you pay that fee and again it will apply if your record is deferred to a different semester. So what if your plan is to come to the United States to study that fee will apply to your record regardless of when. So go ahead and pay that when you can.

OK, students are also asking about their UBIT meaning. Once you have an except at the University, you will see in your application status portal you're you bite name. You should receive an email with a one time password where you can activate this if you were accepted, you know weeks or even months ago and you haven't received that. It's OK to reach out to you by TI. We can put the link in the chat and just ask them to help you activate your account, but you should have your unique person number.

Which is listed in your application status portal as well. Annuar UBIT name. That is what you will use to activate your account.

I know we're getting lots of questions about. If you do end up enrolling on line for fall, what will be your options for CPT? At this point we can't give you really any specific guidelines on what will happen. We're working on that currently. I can tell you that we are trying to be as flexible as possible so that we can make sure that as many students can apply for a CPT. It really will have to be something that we will communicate to you. Once we have some more.

Answers on what's happening with fall, so after that fall decision or soon after it is made on if we will be in person or online, we can better assess how and when students could potentially use CPT. So please know that I see a lot of questions about that and we understand that's a very important question and we we are doing our best to make sure that we can get you a better answer soon, OK?

Katie does your website provide any information on helping students passed their visa interview or is there any resources that you can point them too.

The international admissions website has some good information that we cross post too, and so I would recommend going to UBS international admission website because it does have some tips for you to prepare for your visa interview. Yes.

Great.

Also seeing a lot of questions about deferrals I'm again if you defer if you were offered admission to the University of Buffalo in the school of engineering you have the opportunity to defer your enrollment up to one year So what that means is if you can't come in fall 2020 you can choose to enroll in spring 2021 or fall 2021 you will not be you do not have to be evaluated again you are you have your admission you have your seed.

You can make that decision to defer one time up to one year, and that's a University rule. So we we will honor your admission up to one year. We ask that you don't change if you pick Spring 2021. We cannot honor if you decide them to come for fall, so make sure that you think this through about when you want to actually enroll and defer one time up to one year.

Um, some questions about, uh, deadlines. To submit your financial forms for your I-20 is to be issued. We do not have a deadline again, we just ask that you submit them when you can. We understand that a lot of banks are closed and that you're unable to get your documents. Uhm, but we just ask that you submit those as soon as you can. Obviously we cannot issue you're I-20 until we have those documents.

And I will give you a short update. Again, we are all working from home at the University right now, so international admissions is the office that issues your I-20. They're working at home and they are still issuing I 20s. They are still signing I 20s and they will be emailing it to you and then once we returned to campus if you paid for a Courier shipping, it will be shipped to you so you don't have to worry about that were still issuing I 20s and again, there's no deadline to submit your financial forms. Your bank statements.

But we cannot issue the I-20 until we do receive those.

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Was confusing folks about the on line.

Uh, enrollment and visa. what I the the the point about online is the questions that we are getting our will taking on line courses, affective future visa appointment. That answer is no and In addition no you don't need a visa for the semester in which you take on line courses so I'm sorry they are different questions. I was only addressing that there is no negative impact to taking on line courses.

When you sit down at a counselor appointment for a future semester, so I'm sorry if I confused you. I just wanted to make sure that that was very clear. I apologize.

I'm also some questions about submitting academic documents. We understand that a lot of places are closed just like the University of Buffalo. Right now, no ones on campus. And if you decide to enroll for fall.

And are having issues. Uhm, you know, getting your academic documents to submit to finalize your admission, please don't worry about that. We will make accommodations for you. We understand that there's going to be a lot of delays right now in a lot of universities, banks, everything is closed, so we are understanding of that. Just just as you are have some you know.

Things close at home. We do here as well. Obviously is we're working from our house is uhm so don't worry about the academic documents. At this time we will communicate with you when those would be needed.

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I do see that some general concern about if you take on line classes.

In the fall? Uhm, that there is some general concern that, um, if, for whatever reason you couldn't obtain a visa, what then?

In general, it's important to remember that very few students have difficulty obtaining their visa, so I think you might be thinking about this in a way.

That is, you know confusing kind of the bigger picture. Getting a visa is really about proving home country intent, so regardless of taking some online courses, if you go to the visa appointment and explain your intentions and that they are to study and return home at your financial documents.

Are appropriate, you really shouldn't have too much trouble at a visa appointment, but again, if you did, if you weren't able to get your visa for spring 2021, for example, you would communicate that with old Jennifer's office, an ISS and we will work with you to defer your I-20 further and to think about what we could do for online classes. Continuing so there is solutions if you are to fall into that very rare.

An unlikely situation.

But I do see a lot of students asking, so I think I just wanted to address that. We don't anticipate that you wouldn't get your visa. We anticipate that you would get your visa.

So there's still some questions coming through about differing your admission, so I just want to clarify. Again, if you were offered admission on for fall 2020 and you need to defer that admission, you do not need to submit a new application. You do not need to be reviewed again. I'm your admission is guaranteed and you can choose to defer one time up to one year. Again, we do not have an answer on fall 2020. We don't know what will happen at this point.

Again, we will communicate that with you as soon as we do know, but we do not have an answer at this time. Right now we are anticipating being on campus for fall 2020, but if anything changes, we will let you know, and so we ask that you hold off on differing your admission so we don't need to switch back and forth. It would just be cleaner if you know you. If you do decide to defer your admission that we just do it once. So if you are waiting to see what happens with fall 2020, please.

Hold off on differing your admission and we will communicate with you, the process that we will be going through in the school of engineering and then we will be working with both international admissions, an international student services to make sure that you receive is your I-20 in your sevis ID number is deferred to a new semester, so you do not have to pay that CSV again.

Students asking about when they're going to get their I-20. I know um, Lauren has responded for what you can do is to check on your status, but I also highlight that.

International admissions is currently as of yesterday, not yet. Sending the full I 20s out because ups and FedEx will not pick up my 20s if they can't secure a final delivery. And so as you know, delivery system globally is disrupted and so they will not take the paper. I 20s from us and less they can really guarantee that they can get it to you.

So we are in a little bit of a holding pattern with the I-20 is that is why we are working to get you a PDF of the I-20 and soon we will start sending them out as soon as we are able.

Many of you are in China and India and those are different as far as how accessible the shipping has been, so some may be getting shipping in some may not, so just know that it is a a current project for us and we will start sending out as soon as our shipper will accept the packages.

I see some questions about if your total your GRA expires before your deferral, don't worry about that. We can always apply for waivers through our University up again, if you were offered admission for fall 2020, it is still guaranteed to you if you decide to defer to spring or fall so you do not have to be reviewed again and don't worry about the expiration of your jirari or your total at this time. We will help get through that for you.

You too, um again, based on the questions, I want to speak to CPT. If you are enrolled on line in the fall.

Um?

Not, there's no specific items just yet, but it is something uhm, and you can see Jen. It is something we are actively working on with Jen in her office and with Chris who was on here earlier, it is something we are having conversations of. Actually, you know, we just had a recent conversation. Will continue to have a conversation about how that will work for CPT, so we don't have an answer, but we don't expect you to make a decision about deferral without knowing.

That information

It's obviously we also want you to wait to find out if will be in person or not, but there are a few things that we would hope that you would consider before making that decision. The CPT information is coming and of course the information about how our semester will roll out for fall. It's also should be coming so we understand that those are still questions and I have just as many questions as you do about that, but I want you to know our intent is to make this as accessible for you as possible and we're exploring.

All options to do that, so I don't have anything more specific than that right now, but I understand that you need more information and we're working on that, so I just wanted to make sure that that point was very clear.

Yeah, so the school of Engineering is working very closely with international student services to we are very aware that you are concerned about you know CPT eligibility. So we are working with Katie's office. We are coming up with different opportunities to look at ways that we can make sure that we deliver you the best education that you can get including you know if you're interested in doing internships throughout your educational career.

I'm so like it. He said we will be communicating that with you hopefully very soon. I'm we're working on different, you know, options for students so we can make sure that you are satisfied with the education that you can receive from you. Be so please stay tuned. We hope to make some decisions soon so we can provide the best opportunities to you. But again, we don't have any answers right now on.

Well, the you know what the options would be. Just because we don't know what will come up fall 2020 at this time.

If you already deferred from spring to fall of 2020, and you know the situation changes for fall 2020, we will work with you. Obviously this is a very unique situation of why you know students may not be able to enroll in fall 2020, so please email grad and if you have any questions about that and would be happy to answer an work with you.

Will fees for online courses be the same as on campus courses?

Right now student accounts is figuring that out. Um, so again, we will communicate that with you, right? You know it, we don't have an answer on fall 2020 uhm, and so there's a lot of unknown right now, which we apologize for. We are just as anxious as you are to receive an answer, so we can help you through the process. But as soon as we have information on fall 2020 will be able to share a lot more.

Scenarios and information for you going forward.

Again with the I-20. Like Katie said, we're not mailing I 20s at this moment due to many reasons. If you paid your Courier shipping fee and you've been processed through international admissions, you will see in your application status portal if your sevis ID number has populated there, that means that your I-20 has been created, so there could just be a little bit of a delay with it being emailed to you again, staff have to pick up my 20s to sign them and then return them to campus.

To have them scan it's, uh, a process right now, so Please be patient with us if you do see your sevis ID number though in your application status portal you're I-20 has been issued and it will be coming to you very soon through an email.

OK, any other questions come that you might have please type in the chat right now, um.

If you take classes on line, are you able to apply for TAS araris remotely on? Probably not during that semester as we're trying to figure out everything. If we decide to go on line, many of RTS and arres are saved for PhD students in the school of engineering just because they are doing research and teaching. And but honestly, we don't have an answer for fall. We don't know what will happen with knew incoming PhD students. Again, stay tuned. We hope to get you these answers very soon.

Um and I apologize that we can't give them to you right now.

There is no deadline necessarily for the immunization forms. We asked students to complete them by mid-May, um, because you have a hold on your account. Uhm, for those forms, and so if those that hold is removed, that makes it much easier for us to work with you. I'm getting other holds removed.

So it's really just something we hope that you can do as soon as possible. I would try to do that though before June if possible.

Somebody asked about labs in the on line format. I can't give you a very clear answer on that as I'm not a student right now, but I do know that all of our spring classes have been moved to the virtual format, including labs, so the school of Engineering is definitely innovative and they figured out a way to move all labs on line. So again, I wouldn't worry about that at this time. And if that is the case.

We will communicate with you and I'm sure they you know the the courses will still be providing a great education, whether their online or in person.

Um, some questions about if classes are online in the Falcon, they continue to work. I'm assuming in your home country, that's your question. Um, he did you want to answer that.

Yes uhm because you're not going to be on a visa status during the fall if we're on line and if you're taking courses you would be able to continue to do things in your home country as you normally would Jen will be able to give you a better idea of so if we're on line jenn will be able to help you understand why taking one course versus 2 courses may impact your length of program.

So that is a decision you can make a little bit later but yes if you're enrolled in online courses at home you aren't under any visa status so you could continue to work full time for an employer or part time however you manage both your education and your personal life would be fine.

Questions about the health immunization form again, does that mean you will be able to register for classes once you activate your YouTube name and you log into your hub, a account you will see there's different holds on your account. Many of these holds mean different things, but they will restrict you from from registering for classes in the time being until you check in with international student services, you will not be able to register for classes, but that doesn't mean.

Once you complete that that you will be able to. There's other holds that can be on your account, including health, immunization form or your Department specific holds if they hold off registration until a certain time, so please make sure you just click on those different holes in your account and it will let you know what it is restricting you from doing.

Oh, I think we've answered a lot of questions. I want to thank Katie for doing this presentation with us today. Again, we will have this posted online under our webinars section. So where you you Click to register for this, there's a tablet, says past webinars. You are welcome to go back and watch any of the past webinars that we have had an we will continue to host webinars.

Right now next week we have a webinar hosted by the graduate Indian Student Association, so they will be answering a lot of questions for students based on their current experiences. As a student. We also have webinars coming up on job outcomes. An placements I'm so take a look at the website and please register for any webinars that you're interested in and again we will continue to communicate with you about the situation for fall 2020. Once we have an answer, we will make sure that we communicate that with you.

As soon as possible and provide you with your options for study at you be we hope that you still choose to study with us. We are committed to delivering your education as best possible and we hope to welcome you to campus soon.

Yes, thanks so much everyone.

Again, if you have any extra questions or any additional questions you can stay on, will leave the chat open for a little bit, but you're also welcome to email grad Anjan anytime we will forward any questions that we can answer to the appropriate place and Lauren just type the email address in there so you'll be able to see that. And again, I hope you join us for some future webinars.

Thanks everyone.

Thanks everyone.