{"id":1379,"date":"2021-08-21T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T23:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/?page_id=1379"},"modified":"2022-05-03T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:31:38","slug":"visa-request-letter-checklist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/visa-request-letter-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa Request Letter Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To obtain a request letter to the embassy for a relative to attend Commencement, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" class=\"underline\">students please provide us with the following:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Email of candidacy from the Registrar \u2013 this will include the language: <strong>\u201cYour graduation for (semester\/year)*\u2026has been reviewed and approved by the Office of the Registrar.\u201d<\/strong><\/li><li>Student ID number<\/li><li>Your salutation, Mr. or Ms.<\/li><li>Major<\/li><li>Name(s)* and relationship to the invitee(s), please include the designation Mr. or Ms. designation which will be needed in the body of the letter.<\/li><li>The family member\u2019s local American embassy: the <strong>name of the embassy<\/strong> and the address in the country they are from \u2013 please obtain this from an official website, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usembassy.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.usembassy.gov\/<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" class=\"underline\">Please note:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please note that the Visa letter is not written by our office until you have received the approval email from the Registrar.&nbsp; You will receive several formal communications from the Registrar. This one will include the language \u201cYour graduation \u2026has been reviewed and approved by the Office of the Registrar.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do not mail letters to the embassy. We prepare the letter and the student will forward it to the relative to present to the relevant embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students needing letters should send their request to Ms. Gordon <a href=\"mailto:oiss@umes.edu\">oiss@umes.edu<\/a> and can call us with questions: 410-651-8385.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To obtain a request letter to the embassy for a relative to attend Commencement, students please provide us with the following: Email of candidacy from the Registrar \u2013 this will include the language: \u201cYour graduation for (semester\/year)*\u2026has been reviewed and approved by the Office of the Registrar.\u201d Student ID number Your salutation, Mr. or Ms&#8230;.<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/visa-request-letter-checklist\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Visa Request Letter Checklist<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1379","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}