• Admission Committee reviews the individual's profile.

Admission notification from VIPP

After approving your documents and profile, the VIPP director will send you an acceptance letter (You may get e-mail notification first).

OISS review process

VIPP will submit all the documents to the Office of International Student Scholars(OISS) to have a DS-2019 issued, enabling you to apply for a J1 visa.

Sending *SEVIS forms to new VIPP fellow

VIPP will send the SEVIS forms to new VIPP fellows so they can apply for a J1 or F1 visa, as soon as VIPP gets the original forms from OISS.

*SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor Information System): An Internet-based software application being developed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) that will provide tracking and monitoring of non-immigrant students (F and M visas) and exchange visitors (J visa) and their dependents