As an international student it is your responsibility to review all of the information indicated on your immigration documents to ensure accuracy and validity as well as to maintain a non-immigrant status.
You must:
1. Inform to the Office of International Education if any of the information of your immigration documentation is incorrect, has changed (e.g., name, finances) or an updated I-20/DS-2019 need to be issued.
2. Monitor all document expiration dates and seek document renewal or extension in a timely manner.
3. Maintain a personal file of all of your immigration documentation: current and previous I-20's/ DS-2019s; copies of your SEVIS fee receipt, passport, visa, I-94, Employment Authorization Document (EAD) etc).
Keep in mind that you will have to provide copies for document updates and immigration benefit applications.
Key immigration documents:
1- Form I-20A-B: Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) Student Status-For Academic and Language Students
2- DS-2019 (J-1 student status): Certificate of eligibility for exchange visitor status
3- Passport
4- Visa
5- I-94: Record of Arrival & Departure
For more information about the procedures related with these documents, please go to: