• International Students

  • Admitted Student Orientation

    International Student Orientation

    All international students, undergraduate and graduate, MUST attend the international student orientation program to receive specific information for maintaining immigration status, insurance, employment options, and more. You are also required to attend any additional mandatory orientation events for your academic program.

    If you are a newly admitted international students, please read our Fall 2013 International Student Orientation schedule!

    International Student Orientation Dates

    Undergraduate & Graduate Students (not Law Students):  Orientation begins on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 in International & Off-Campus Programs Office located at 742 Snelling Avenue North near SuperAmerica gas station. Orientation will continue each day until the end of Friday, August 30, 2013. A more detailed schedule will be posted soon. Please check back in the future.

    Law students: Law students will have a pre-emptive international student orientation with IOCP staff as a session of Law School Orientation. As the Law school starts classes earlier than other students at Hamline it is not mandatory to attend the regular international orientation session. However, all new international law students are invited to attend additional orientation sessions with all new international students when class schedules do not overlap with orientation sessions.  


    Note: Orientation is required for F-1/J-1 visa holders only (this includes new transfer students). If you are new to the United States and do not hold F-1 status but would like to attend orientation to meet other international students and obtain information that may be useful to you, you are welcome to attend. Please email iocp@hamline.edu in advance to let us know you will be coming.     

    Activities   

    • Immigration visa briefing where you will learn more about the federal requirements of your visa status, as well as Hamline's related policies and procedures (mandatory for F-1 and J-1 visa holders). 
         
    • Presentations from various Hamline offices tailored specifically to international student needs. This information is unique to international orientation so it is important that you attend. 
         
    • Campus tours where you will meet with staff from offices which you will regularly rely on as a Hamline student 
           
    • Various social activities where you can meet other students and begin to get to know your new surroundings in Minnesota
    • If you will be living on campus you need to either bring your own or order bed sheets and pillow from the Residential Life Office. Please note that like most US universities the beds on campus are a unique size that require specially sized linens (Single/ Twin, Extra-Long).  For shipping information, be sure to use our office address:
      •                International and Off-Campus Programs
                     1536 Hewitt Ave, MS-C1927
                     Saint Paul, MN 55104 
      • On the first night of orientation, we will make a special trip to the store in order for you to purchase any food, school, and home supplies that you may need.

    Bring all immigration documents (passport, US visa, I-94, and I-20/DS-2019) and be prepared to provide your local contact information (address, phone number, etc.) on the first day of orientation. This is required in order to register your SEVIS immigration record with the Department of Homeland Security. 

    required orientation events

    You are also required to attend any additional mandatory orientation events for your program. Please see the list below for more information about required orientation events.  

    First-year, transfer, & exchange undergraduate students:

    • International Student Orientation (all days)
    • Piper Passages (first year student orientation)

    Graduate students:

    • International Student Orientation (first day is required; subsequent days are strongly recommended)
    • Your academic program might have a separate mandatory orientation. Please contact your academic department for more information
    • The graduate admission office also hosts an optional graduate student orientation for all incoming graduate students
    • Spring and Summer term MBA admits start classes at a different date then all other Hamline students, so you will have an MBA only international orientation if you start during one of those terms

    Law students:

    • International Student Orientation (strongly recommended)
    • Law School Orientation (as part of the Law School orientation you will meet with our office for an independent visa session)