![]() ![]() You will be required to travel to your country of citizenship to apply for a new visa. ![]() If your visa application is denied by the American consulate, you are not allowed to use automatic revalidation to return to the US. If you apply for a US entry visa during your visit to one of these destinations, you must wait for it to be issued before you return. Not apply for a US visa while in Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean.For example, you cannot use automatic revalidation to enter Canada, depart to another country, return to Canada, and then return to the US within 30 days. Travel only to one of the destinations named above and for fewer than thirty days.Have a passport valid at least six months into the future on the day you return to the US.Have a current I-20 or DS-2019 with a valid travel signature.If you are traveling directly to and from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean* (except Cuba) for fewer than thirty days, you may return to the US with an expired F or J visa in your passport, using Automatic Revalidation. Travel to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean DS-2019s will be available for pick-up in ISS or can be mailed to you. If the most recent travel signature will be expired at the time you reenter the US, please submit a Travel Signature Request Form to an advisor will email you an updated I-20 with a new travel signature. ![]() If the travel signature will be valid at the time you reenter the US, you do not need to request a new signature. Check your most recently issued I-20/DS-2019. ISS advisors provide a new travel signature on each I-20/DS-2019 they issue to you. We recommend current students obtain a new travel signature each academic year. If you are on F-1 OPT, the travel signature on your I-20 is valid for six months. For F-1 students prior to graduation, and for all J-1 exchange visitors, travel signatures are valid for 1 year. The signature appears on page 2 of the I-20, and page 1 of the DS-2019. Travel signatures acknowledge that you are maintaining your status at RIT.
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