Support

Maintain Your Status (Click here: DHS’s Maintain Your Status) & Study in the States(Click here: DHS’s Study in the States)

• Enroll(link to the Registrar’s Page)

  • Need to be enrolled for full time each term
  • At least 66% of the full time credit needs to be face-to-face (not online) courses
  • *RCL option (Request for Reduced Course Load (fillable))
  • NOTE: your I-20 needs to be activated at the beginning of every term (after your registration is verified)

• Moving

  • Needs to submit a Change of Address online form (Click Here for the Form) within ten days of change. This updates SEVIS & CBTS records.

• Traveling

  • Before each travel outside of the U.S.
    • Receive a Travel Approval Letter by submitting an Overseas Travel Notification online form (Click Here for Form)
    • Check your I-20 to see if the last travel signature is not older than one year and not older than 6 months for OPT students (you can ask for a new travel signature on the Overseas Travel Notification Online Form)
    • Check to make sure that your travel dates cannot overlap with your class day(s)
  • THINGS TO NOTE to maintain your status (link to DHS’s Maintaining Your Status):
    • DO register as a full time student each term
    • DO keep your passport & I-20 valid
    • DO report any changes to CBTS WITHIN 10 DAYS
      • Address Changes
      • Academic Changes
      • Finance Changes
      • Name Changes
      • Dependent(F-2) Changes

    • DO NOT work on-campus or off-campus without authorization from the CBTS International Student Office (Click Here)*Link to the CBTS International Student Employment page (Click Here)

      • Link to the DHS “Working in the United States”

(you can also check out our International Students Page: www.cbts.edu > Academics >International Students)