{"id":5906,"date":"2024-03-13T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=478290"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:22:39","slug":"maintaining-status","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/international-students\/current-students\/maintaining-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining F-1 &amp; J-1 Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the responsibility of each F-1 and J-1 student to understand and be familiar with the regulations governing their immigration status. The Office of Graduate &amp; International Programs is the primary resource for learning about rights and responsibilities as an F-1 or J-1 student at Georgetown Law. Explore our webpages or contact your International Student Advisor to familiarize yourself with the rules and regulations below.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The U.S. government considers students who violate F-1 or J-1 regulations \u201cout of status.\u201d Penalties for violating status can be serious and may affect not only a student\u2019s entire academic career, but also future applications for U.S. visas or other immigration benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To maintain legal status, F-1 and J-1 students must:<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the responsibility of each F-1 and J-1 student to understand and be familiar with the regulations governing their immigration status. The Office of Graduate &amp; International Programs is the primary resource for learning about rights and responsibilities as an F-1 or J-1 student at Georgetown Law. Explore our webpages or contact your International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3271,"featured_media":0,"parent":5882,"menu_order":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5906\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}