We appreciate the many ways academic units support students in initiating and maintaining their immigration status.
Departments should direct students to ISSA with any immigration-related status questions, but in some cases, the department or academic representative has a role to play in ensuring the student can secure their status or a benefit of their status. These situations include:
- providing documentation for a Social Security Number application
- understanding work authorization, like F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT or J-1 Academic Training
- understanding academic approver procedures
- assisting a student who must defer admission to a future semester and needs updated documents
- fielding emails when students are concerned about their initial or active status
Information about these processes from a student's perspective can be found in other sections of our website, if more information is requested.
Student Responsibility
As we tell students at orientation, they have many different types of responsibilities while enrolled at Notre Dame and there are different mechanisms to manage each of them:
- Academic responsibilities are managed with their academic department and through resources like Canvas and the Registrar
- Employment responsibilities are managed with Human Resources, Payroll, and ND Tax office.
- Mental and physical health care needs will take them to resources at St Liam's
- Filing taxes will take them to external resources like Sprintax
While a student's immigration status is tied to their academic, employment and personal responsibilities, ultimately it is a separate responsibility that has distinct mechanisms for requesting, reporting, and applying related to an immigration status.
It is important that everyone understands that the student has full responsibility to ensure that they are managing their immigration status and all of its requirements, and to reach out to ISSA directly to discuss their particular questions and concerns.