{"id":10704,"date":"2021-12-10T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/?page_id=10704"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:20:34","slug":"program-extensions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/program-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending Your Program End Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you will not be completing your studies at Bates College before the program end date on your I-20, you will need to request an extension for your immigration document. Please first discuss the academic extension with your academic advisor and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-affairs\/student-support-and-advising\/academic-standing-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academic Standing Committee<\/a>. If the academic extension is approved, a new I-20 will be issued for you with an amended program end date once your academic record has been updated to reflect your new graduation term. Please keep in mind that your F-1 visa may expire before your new program end date, and you will need to apply for a new F-1 visa if you plan to travel outside of the U.S. and return to Bates College after the current visa expires, even if your extended I-20 is valid.<\/p>\n<h5>Failure to extend your I-20 before its end date will greatly jeopardize your F-1 status.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you will not be completing your studies at Bates College before&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-10704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10857,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10704\/revisions\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}