If you do not have an F-1 student visa, please check to see if your visa status is eligible to study here at North Seattle College.
Nonimmigrant Visa Statuses
Incidental Study: Applicants may engage in incidental study while maintaining nonimmigrant visa status. These applicants may not engage in part-or-full time study and are only eligible to take a course for recreational purposes.
Eligible visas
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B1/B2 (Visitor for Business or Tourism)
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J1 (Au-pair)
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**Must complete 6 credits for program.
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P1 (Foreign nationals who are athletes, artists and entertainers)
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P2 ( Artists and Entertainment groups, and their support personnel)
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P3 (Artist or Entertainer coming to be Part of a Culturally Unique Program)
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Q1, Q2 and Q3 (International Cultural Exchange program attendee)
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TN (Citizens of Canada and Mexico, as NAFTA professionals, to work in the US)
If the applicant wants to study full-time in any NSC program, then he/she must either apply for F1 visa overseas at US Consulate/Embassy or apply to do Change of Status (COS) in the US.
Part-or-Full Time Study: Applicants may engage in part-or-full time study while maintaining nonimmigrant visa status.
Eligible visas
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F2 (Dependent of F1)
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**May engage in part-time study for avocational or recreational in nature.
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**Allowed to study full-time in the Intensive English Program.
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**If "course of study" is desired, student must change to F1.
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J2 (Dependent of J1)
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P4 (Dependent of P1, P2 or P3)
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Q3 (Dependent of Q1 and Q2)
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TD (Spouse or child of TN visa holder)
Not Allowed to Study: Applicants that are not allowed to study while maintaining nonimmigrant visa status.
Eligible visas
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WB, WT (Visa Waiver for Business and Tourist)
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C1, C2 and C3 (Alien in Transit)
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D1 and D2 (Alien crewmen)
Residency & ESL Eligible Visa/Immigration Statuses
Students who fit the following statuses should not be referred to the International Programs department. Instead, they should visit the college’s residency website for more information: https://www.seattlecolleges.edu/getting-started/residency.
Eligible Visas
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A, E, G, H, I, K, L, N, O, R, S, T1-T4, U, V
Other Eligible Immigration Statuses
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Permanent Resident (Green card holders)
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Refugee/Asylum Status (Approved or Pending with Completed BIOMETRICS)
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TPS (Temporary Protected Status)
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Parolees
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NATO
Eligible Non-US Citizens (Citizens of the following "US Territories")
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Guam
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Common Wealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI)
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Common Wealth of Puerto Rico
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US Virgin Islands (USVI)
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American Samoa & Swains Island
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Federated States of Micronesia
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Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)
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Republic of Palau (Belau)