Maintaining Status

Status maintenance is essential for international students. Whether students maintain their status will determine continued enrollment at the College. In order for international students to maintain status, they should:

• Be enrolled full-time (12 or more credits each semester)
• Engage in authorized employment only
• Progress toward completing their program within the established timeframe
• Apply for changes such as transfers in a timely manner (allow for 2 business day for processing)
• Maintain a 2.0 grade point average (GPA)

A violation to the F-1 status results in students falling out of status. If students choose to engage in status-violating activities after having been instructed on what constitutes a status-violating activity, the procedures and regulations established by law will be enforced. Status Violating Activities include the following:

1. Staying in the country after the I-20 form has expired without having applied for a new program or transferring to another approved educational institution.
2. Failure to maintain conditions of status, which include:
   1. Enrolling less than full-time without the authorization of the International Student Office (ISO) - full time is 12 credits each semester
   2. Registering and attending a school other than LDS Business College without proper authorization
   3. Stop attending classes and receiving a UW grade
   4. Late applications for transfers, program extensions, and/or OPT
   5. Unauthorized employment or putting employment ahead of their education
   6. Failure to maintain a 2.0 GPA for two semesters

Other types of violations, equally serious, are those related to the College’s Honor Code. In situations related to Honor Code violations and those of similar nature, the International Student Office will proceed according to the instructions received from the appropriate departments and individuals.