loser40

Hi...

I'm curious to know the small print about the student visa(s).

For example, I understand that I must study full time - but how many hours of study per week/month/semester constitutes full time.

A link to an informative web-page much appreciated.

TIA,

M.

Marocco

As long as you are enrolled full time, I don't think anybody cares how much time you actually spend studying.

Bluegrass Lass

You need to look at what your university considers full time status. University A may say that 12 credit hours is a full time while University B may say 15 credit hours. How many hours you spend studying outside of class doesn't matter at all, it's all down to credit hours.

ian-mstm

Since it depends on the university, why not tell us what university you want to go to, we'll figure out how many hours constitutes "full-time" study, and then we'll get back to you. Does that sound like a reasonable course of action?

How about this... since you already know which university you're interested in, you go to the university's web site, figure out how many academic hours constitutes "full-time" study, and relieve us of the responsibility of doing your research for you.

Ian

loser40

Ian,

If I need unhelpful, patronizing, sarcasm, you'll be my go-to guy.



Marocco & sunflwrgrl13,

Thanks for your input and advice...

...now that I know that different colleges each have there own idea about how many 'credit hours' constitutes full time education, and from a study visa application point of view this is the norm, I'm now in a much better position to consider my study options.

Thanks again,

M.

Bluegrass Lass

Loser (and you really should pick a better screennam!) usually the number of credit hours a class is corresponds to the number of hours you will be spending in the classroom each week. So a 3credit hour class will likely meet for about 3hrs a week. There are exceptions to the rule of course.

meauxna

You mean like this one? http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1268.html

Your problem is that you are using the Canada terms and you confused posters with 'study'.

You should find what you need on that web page and for future reference "student visa" is the US term.

Please don't bite back at the people who answered the question you asked vs the one you wanted answered.

A I

To compliment,
Here's the most common exception to that rule: Generally courses with additional Lab credit hours (3+1 lab "credit" hours for total of 4 credit hours) require 6 hours of class per week. This is mostly applicable to science courses, such a Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc. For whatever reason the Lab only gets you 1 credit even though you sometimes must be present the full 6 hours per week on these courses.