A couple of newbie questions Forum

[RedTop]

Wonder if anyone can help regarding my girlfriend's application:

1) She has three letters of recommendation, two from when she applied to graduate school in about 2003, and one from her current boss. If LSAC has all three, and an application asks for two, how does she specify which two LSAC should send?

2) She is neither a U.S. citizen nor permanent resident. If she goes to law school, we will get married, but of course we don't want to say anything about that in her application. Will a law school admit her without some evidence that she can legally enter and study in the USA?

[trudat15]

Wonder if anyone can help regarding my girlfriend's application:

1) She has three letters of recommendation, two from when she applied to graduate school in about 2003, and one from her current boss. If LSAC has all three, and an application asks for two, how does she specify which two LSAC should send?

2) She is neither a U.S. citizen nor permanent resident. If she goes to law school, we will get married, but of course we don't want to say anything about that in her application. Will a law school admit her without some evidence that she can legally enter and study in the USA?

As far as the first question, they will ask you which LOR you want to assign to a school, then those are the ones that get sent. No idea on second.

[merichard87]

why don't yall just get married now and make this a non-issue.

[Eugenie Danglars]

She'll need a student visa. If she's currently in the US without status, she should leave ASAP and apply from her home country. If she applies while here illegally, she could get caught and face the 3/10 bar, which would suck. Not even a fiance visa can trump it.

If she's here on work or some other sort of visa, she'll be fine to apply as an international student who happens to live here for the moment. The school where she attends will then issue her a student visa, and she'll most likely have to surrender her current visa.

HTH.

[calicocat]

2) She is neither a U.S. citizen nor permanent resident. If she goes to law school, we will get married, but of course we don't want to say anything about that in her application. Will a law school admit her without some evidence that she can legally enter and study in the USA?

she doesn't have to specify anything like this on her application. Once she decides on a school, she can start applying for a student visa which she will need in order to attend.

[03121202698008]

She'll need a student visa. If she's currently in the US without status, she should leave ASAP and apply from her home country. If she applies while here illegally, she could get caught and face the 3/10 bar, which would suck. Not even a fiance visa can trump it.

If she's here on work or some other sort of visa, she'll be fine to apply as an international student who happens to live here for the moment. The school where she attends will then issue her a student visa, and she'll most likely have to surrender her current visa.

HTH.

This is credited. If she is here illegally, she needs to leave ASAP.

[RedTop]

She's not here illegally. She just visits me here, entirely legally. She lives, owns a home, and works in her home country.

[03121202698008]

She's not here illegally. She just visits me here, entirely legally. She lives, owns a home, and works in her home country.

Then they won't care because they will issue her a student visa if/when accepted.