Student Visas

Education Hour: Visa Advice for American Educational Institutions

"Education Hour" offers an opportunity for representatives of American educational institutions and exchange organizations to ask questions about visas to Consular Officers. Although non-US citizens can attend the Education Hour, these sessions are not open to individual student visa applicants nor can individual cases be discussed.

We will not accept any documents on behalf of individual applicants. (Such documents are best submitted when the individual makes an application.) Comments on such cases are not authoritative in that the only time a Consular Officer can make a decision regarding an individual's eligibility for a visa is during an official visa interview.

Reservations are not required, but we welcome e-mails to shanghaiedu@state.gov from schools regarding their plans to attend. We ask that attendees present a business card or letter from the school or organization they are representing. Education Hour sessions will be held every Wednesday at 3:30 pm at the Consular Section American Citizens Services Waiting Room, 8th Floor, Westgate Mall, 1038 West Nanjing Road.