{"id":45,"date":"2016-06-08T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-01-02T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:09:42","slug":"taking-interim-off","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/taking-interim-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Interim Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><strong>General Information:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>All St. Olaf College international students are required to maintain F-1 status while in the U.S. To maintain F-1 status, you must enroll full-time Fall, Interim, and Spring of your first year and every Fall and Spring semester thereafter. Students are required to enroll in a full course of study with a minimum of 3.0 credits each semester.<\/p>\n<p>St. Olaf College requires students to complete three separate January full-credit (1.0) Interim courses to graduate. This could be an on or off campus course, internship, independent study, or independent research for credit. As an F-1 student, you may take a vacation for one Interim session, if you have been studying full-time at St. Olaf College for nine consecutive months.<\/p>\n<p>A form to request to not enroll in an interim course should be filled, which could be find in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/forms-and-resources\/\">Forms and Resources<\/a> page. In addition, If you will be outside the U.S., the Visa Coordinator will add a note to your I-20 to show the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer upon your re-entry.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Information: All St. Olaf College international students are required to maintain F-1 status while in the U.S. To maintain F-1 status, you must enroll full-time Fall, Interim, and Spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/international-student-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}