{"id":158,"date":"2012-10-29T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/students\/current\/others\/dependents\/"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:36:58","slug":"dependents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/students\/dependents\/","title":{"rendered":"Dependent Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dependents are those family members who accompany the principal non-immigrant visitor.&nbsp; Dependents who may enter with, or later join the principal visitor, are limited to the principal&#8217;s spouse and \/or children under 21 years of age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently enacted Federal regulations (8CFR 214.2(f) and 214.3) have limited full-time study for certain dependent categories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>F-2 spouses are prohibited from enrolling in full-time study.&nbsp; F-2 spouses may enroll in &#8220;avocational and recreational&#8221; study (e.g. one English course or a sports or music\/art class).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>F-2 children may be enrolled full-time in an elementary or secondary school.&nbsp; Please note, however, that F-2 students attending an elementary or secondary public school must pay tuition at that school.&nbsp; Please consult with the Education Department of the city or town where you are residing.<\/li>\n<li>A J-2 spouse and J-2 children are currently permitted to enroll in full-time study.&nbsp; However, please consult with an advisor at the International Students and Scholars Office prior to enrolling in full-time study as it is expected that regulations may change to limit full-time study in J-2 immigration classification.<\/li>\n<li>Other dependent categories may include H-4s, L-2s, P-4s, As and Gs.&nbsp; All of these dependent categories currently permit part-time or full-time study.&nbsp;&nbsp; For further information, please contact an advisor at the ISSO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dependents are those family members who accompany the principal non-immigrant visitor.&nbsp; Dependents who may enter with, or later join the principal visitor, are limited to the principal&#8217;s spouse and \/or children under 21 years of age. Recently enacted Federal regulations (8CFR 214.2(f) and 214.3) have limited full-time study for certain dependent categories. F-2 spouses are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4900,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/4680"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}