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Harvey

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	Send: 11/1/2009 7:28:18 AM

Has anyone in America ever applied for financial aide, tuition assistance or grants for an immigrant? This would be for full time study in a baccalaureate degree program.

Olga

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	Send: 11/1/2009 10:44:34 AM

check university website, call corresponding college. they will provide you with application forms. yes, you can apply. usually there is an financial help office, or similar. they will sho wyou all available programs and requirements.

Harvey

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	Send: 11/1/2009 11:24:21 AM

thanks Olga, I fully understand the processes involved. I was just wondering if anyone has actually been successful or has had experience dealing with US institutions regarding CIS citizens. I wonder how much more they scrutinize an application for aid from a Russian woman. It is being discussed as an option and we have until next fall. It is still never too early to look into it. Next chore is to figure out what if any of her two degrees are tranferrable. I am sure Moscow University has some transferrable credits to US instituions. Just starting to look into it. But as with most institutions -- it's all about the money. college A does not recognize college B's curriculum. So you have to start over in many cases.

Olga

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	Send: 11/1/2009 11:33:31 AM

Universities, o� organizations that do financial aid do not care if she is Russian women, or American women. She needs to correspond to the requirements. If you pay for her tuition, they will issue her I-94 , as far as I remember, and she will have to apply for student visa. then it is all in the Embassy's hands. check program requirements. You would like to get her into undegraduate program? Graduate programs have more choice: graduate assitanship, she can get teaching, research assitanship, but it depends on the speciality and university. She needs to take TOEFL before applying. if she takes ENglish clases for one or two seneters they will wave TOEFL requiremnts. so may be ENglis clases is a good start.

durak

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	Send: 11/1/2009 12:37:05 PM

I don't have direct experience, but if you visit the campus of major universities these days, you can see a very high percentage of foreign-born students, mostly from various parts of Asia. So I imagine that university admission and financial aid departments must be very well geared for dealing with foreign students, who mostly are temporarily in the US (student visas). In your situation, the student will be a permanent resident, and perhaps for this reason her applications will be dealt with in the same way as US citizens.

beemer18

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	Send: 11/1/2009 2:17:25 PM

From what I understand, to come to US to obtain a baccalaureate degree(mostly graduate), all forms and assitance are done from the university where that person lives/attends. That university counseler would know the forms and requirments needed. I just know there are many that apply and like most things......$$$$ makes things flow faster.

ragingbull

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	Send: 11/18/2009 6:10:45 PM

Residency to the state is important. It takes one year to establish residency. My daughter had to pay full nonresident tuition in California to go to a community college because she was with her mother in another state for high school. Lawmakers put a law in place that illegal aliens are residents and do not have to pay that if they went to high school in California.

Harvey

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ragingbull

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	Send: 11/18/2009 8:14:00 PM

Again, Julian. If you have something to say, say it. Am I not allowed in "YOUR" thread?

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