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USCIS: F-1 Students No Longer Need to File COS Extensions
Thursday July 22, 2021 | by WES Advisor
This week, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a policy update that is intended to lessen the burden on those hoping to complete a change of status (COS) and enroll as international students. The new policy states that nonimmigrants do ...
Read MoreSpotlight on Success: Nada El Masry
Thursday June 24, 2021 | by WES Advisor
In honor of World Refugee Day on June 20, learn about one of our grantee partners with the WES Mariam Assefa Fund. Nada El Masry’s family fled Palestine during its vicious ethnic cleansing effort in the 1960s. Displaced to Libya, they were denied ...
Read MoreWES Announces New Apostille Policy for Original Documents
Thursday May 27, 2021 | by WES Advisor
For over a decade, World Education Services (WES) maintained an “apostille” requirement for several countries. Applicants who studied in those countries needed to mail their original documents, with apostille authentication, to WES. Once their report was complete, their original documents would be returned. ...
Read MoreFrom Teaching to Learning: A Refugee’s Story of Resilience
Friday May 21, 2021 | by Marcia Barroso
Ninos Ishaia and his wife Nancy are just two of the 6.6 million Syrians that left their country to escape its civil war. Before coming to Ontario, Canada, the couple had lived for more than two years in Lebanon. Five years have passed since Ninos joined more than 70,000 Syrian refugees who settled in Canada, but he vividly remembers the fears that came with ...
Read MoreStories of Immigrants: Giovanna Romero Sarubbi
Monday May 3, 2021 | by Wilma Lee
World Education Services (WES) believes in the power of storytelling and shared resources. In 2019, we reached out to immigrants across North America. We asked about their reasons for leaving home, their challenges along the way, and the advice they would like to ...
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