{"id":10197,"date":"2023-06-07T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/academics\/iss\/?page_id=10197"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:54:26","slug":"reinstatement-eligibility-screening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/iss-virtual-office-assistant\/reinstatement-eligibility-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinstatement Eligibility Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A reinstatement COE (Form I-20) is\u00a0a document issued to F-1 visa students who have violated their F-1 status<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>The form is known as the Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status.<\/span><\/p>\n

For general information about reinstatement eligibility refer to the Department of Homeland Security Website here<\/a><\/p>\n

Steps to follow<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  1. Read the Reinstatement Instructions carefully and complete all required forms before requesting Reinstatement Eligibility Screening. Read the instructions here<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Sign the Statement of Understanding to proceed. Sign the Statement of understanding here<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Complete the Financial Sponsor Form here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note: <\/b>You will be required to submit all the documents in the steps above when you are completing the Reinstatement Eligibility Screening forms<\/span><\/p>\n

    Remember that you must provide a valid reason to request reinstatement. Please read the eligibility criteria below.
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    Do not submit anything to USCIS yet.<\/p>\n

    Eligibility for Reinstatement<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Under federal regulation, an F-1 student is only eligible for reinstatement if all of the following conditions apply:<\/p>\n

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    • Has not been out of status for more than 5 months at the time of filing the request for reinstatement (or demonstrates that the failure to file within the 5 month period was the result of exceptional circumstances and that the student filed the request for reinstatement as promptly as possible under these exceptional circumstances)<\/li>\n
    • Does not have a record of repeated or willful violations of the Service regulations<\/li>\n
    • Currently pursuing, or intending to pursue, a full course of study in the immediate future at the school which issued the Form I-20.<\/li>\n
    • Has not engaged in unauthorized employment.<\/li>\n
    • Not deportable on any ground other than section 237(a)(1)(B) or (C)(i) of the Act; and<\/li>\n
    • Establishes to the satisfaction of USCIS, by a detailed showing, either that:\n
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      1. The violation of status resulted from circumstances beyond the student’s control. Such circumstances might include serious injury or illness, closure of the institution, a natural disaster, or inadvertence, oversight, or neglect on the part of the DSO, but do not include instances where a pattern of repeated violations or where a willful failure on the part of the student resulted in the need for reinstatement; or<\/li>\n
      2. The violation relates to a reduction in the student’s course load that would have been within a DSO’s power to authorize, and that failure to approve reinstatement would result in extreme hardship to the student.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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        Carefully read the instructions listed below, then use the button at the bottom of this page to start your Reinstatement Eligibility Screening. Overview A reinstatement COE (Form I-20) is\u00a0a document issued to F-1 visa students who have violated their F-1 status.\u00a0The form is known as the Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status. For general […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"parent":9508,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[131,239],"class_list":["post-10197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10197\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=10197"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/iss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}