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April 10, 2024

The HIO will be expanding virtual advising services specifically for the Spring 2024 STEM OPT extension application season.
An HIO advisor will be available to answer general questions about the STEM OPT application process on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 3pm to 4pm beginning on ...

March 27, 2024

As of April 1, 2024, the USCIS filing fee for I-765 applications will increase from $410 to $470 for I-765 applications filed electronically. If your case will be submitted to and received by USCIS prior to April 1, 2024, the current fee of $410 applies.

This fee increase will directly impact May 2024 Graduates planning on applying for Post- ...

March 8, 2024

The HIO is pleased to announce two upcoming webinars for Harvard students and scholars.

The first one is titled Immigration Considerations for Entrepreneurs.  U.S. immigration regulations do not clearly define employment and never contemplated the new era entrepreneurs, influencers and social media. In a time where it seems many students and scholars are interested in launching a new business endeavor, foreign nationals must beware and tread very carefully.  What should non-immigrant students and academics know about launching a business at various stages of their immigration journey?  What activities count as U.S. ...

Personal Stories

Being an international scholar may also be an amenity in the sense that you are given a chance to live, learn, bloom, grow, share, and contribute all the unique lived experience that only you possess and collect over a passage of time. You live with you. You get an amazing opportunity to know you. I think being away from home is enriching.

Liaquat Channa - Pakistan - The Mittal Institute at Harvard

The prospects of learning in a diverse community of practice and having an opportunity to learn from professors whose work I have been following for a long time attracted me to Harvard.

Rigzen Wangmo - India - Harvard Graduate School of Education

Represented at Harvard this year

International population over time

International population this year