Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Immigration regulations require nonimmigrant students in F-1 or J-1 status to be enrolled in a full-time course load each Fall and Spring semester in order to maintain nonimmigrant visa status.

In order to maintain lawful F-1 or J-1 non-immigrant status, international students must enroll full-time, receive permission from ISSS to enroll less than full time, or receive ISSS approval for an ...

Immigration regulations require that F-1 and J-1 students maintain a full course of study (minimum of 12 credits each semester for most students; 9 credits for Graduate Students with an Assistantship; ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...