F-1 students - Fall 2020 registration

See email below from Heidi:

We have received clarification, emailed current F-1s, posted at https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/international-and-esl-students/international/information-during-covid-19.html, and will tell new transfer students the following:

Montgomery College F-1 students have options to register for Fall semester:

• If you are currently inside of the US for the Fall semester, you must:

1. register Full Time (12 or more billing hours), or have written permission from your Coordinator if you must be below full time, and
2. continue to make normal progress toward your degree - just like always.

You DO have the option to register for as many classes as you need that are officially 'on-line' (called Distance Learning at MC).

The classes you register for that are listed with a physical campus location (G=Germantown, R=Rockville, T=Takoma Park/Silver Spring) are called 'on-site' and will probably start the Fall semester in Structured Remote (meeting at the regularly listed class days and times but online via Blackboard or Zoom). You are welcome to take those classes and see Resilient MC’s page (PDF, ) to understand what will happen when we come back onto campus. **********

See below

• If you are, or will be outside of the US during the Fall semester, you have a few choices:

1. you may register full time for all Distance Learning classes and not plan to return until Spring semester of 2021.
2. you may register full time for 'on-site' classes (with or without any Distance classes) but, you need to be ready to return to the US if your classes go back onto the College campus.
3. you may register less than full time and not maintain your F-1 status. If you are out of the US that may not matter during the Fall term, but you may not be able to return for the Spring semester if you are not full time in Fall.

 ******* [JUST updated after Dr. Pollard's announcement to say "Most classes will meet remotely for the full semester" and including the link to the list of classes meeting on site.]

 Thanks!  Students are trying to decide if they will stay or travel or even take some courses at other institutions offering (especially labs) on site.   I'd like to encourage them to stay with MC and help them be successful.

 Thanks!

 Heidi Russell-Kalkofen, MEd

International Coordinator, Montgomery College

Currently Working Remotely

Also see our website at www.montgomerycollege.edu/InternationalStudents

Email general questions to I20questions@montgomerycollege.edu