Subject: ratio for Lad to principals

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 09:42:02 CST

F-1 holder MUST take full time program to keep F-1 status. If he/she
fails to maintain as a full time student for JUST ONE semester, then
he/she IS NOT an F-1 student anymore. 

There are many occasions that one can keep his/her F-1 status while
not taking full time courses. Leave on sick, special programs, no more
course to take, etc. It MUST be approved by your academic advisors,
and your foreign student advisors. If they give you a break, you are 
okay. If they do not, then you are in trouble. Speak to your advisors
before confronting the INS examiner. It is much easier doing this way.

Good luck everybody

Mi Mi Sr.