USCIS Announces Inflation Adjustment to Premium Processing Fees
Considering filing for premium processing for an OPT application? U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a final rule that will increase the filing fee for Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing, to adjust for inflation. The fee change will go into effect on Feb. 26, 2024.
2023 Immigration News and Updates Archive
The latest news and alerts that may impact the immigration status or travel of international students.
USCIS to increase Government Filing Fees
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that they will increase the government filing fees of the following government forms and petitions (see chart below).
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Shifting Expectations of Equity and Inclusion in Education from an International Perspective
The University of Maryland, College of Education’s Benjamin Professorship on International Education presents a webinar on Visions of Black Liberation.
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UMD Named Top-Producing Institution for Fulbright U.S. Scholars
On February 13, the U.S. Department of State announced that the University of Maryland (UMD) was named a 2023-2024 top-producing institution for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar program.
Fearless Fulbrights: Dr. Kamal Khan
Visiting Fulbright scholar Dr. Kamal Khan shares his work as a distinguished Teaching English as a Second Language Scholar (TESOL), currently focusing on the English language within educational policy in multilingual Pakistan.
Fearless Fulbrights: Dr. Roberta Lavine
Spanish Professor Emerita, Dr. Roberta Lavine, traveled to Chile in 2005 as a Fulbright scholar, collaborating with the faculty at the University of Concepción to evolve their learning resources for their secondary English speakers.
Fearless Fulbrights: Dr. Kenneth Leonard
Dr. Kenneth Leonard shares how his Fulbright experience in Ghana was essential to bringing on a new lens to his AGNR course, AREC 365: World Hunger Population and Food Supplies.
J-1 Scholar Pre-Arrival Information
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