These pages contain important and useful information for international scholars related to immigration status for you and your dependents as you join the BU community, throughout your time at BU and as you prepare to exit BU. To make it easier to find what you need, when you need it, the information is organized around where you are in your life cycle at BU.
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New to BU
If you are a newly appointed scholar, there is information you need to review, including information about how to apply for a US visa and regulations about working in the US. Please carefully review these sections.
Current Scholars/Employees
Preparing to Exit BU
As your activity or employment comes to an end at BU—whether you plan to return to your home country or move on to employment elsewhere in the US, careful and early planing around your departure from BU will ensure that you don’t affect your immigration status in the US.