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Covenant Seminary welcomes students from other countries and cultures and invites applications frompeople serving the Church around the world. Completed applications should be sent no later than sixmonths prior to the desired entry date, since additional steps are involved in processing internationalapplicants.Applicants from outside the United States must meet the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services(USCIS; formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS) requirements and thestandards of spiritual maturity and academic proficiency required of all students, including a NorthAmerican bachelor’s degree or its educational equivalent.According to federal law, international students must demonstrate (documented) adequate resources tofinance their education by providing official bank statements and letters from sponsors. Thisdocumentation of financial support must be submitted before student visa applications can be sent.Available scholarships apply only to tuition and do not cover housing, food, books or transportationcosts.Students with F-1 visa status must remain full-time while attending Covenant Seminary. According toUSCIS guidelines, students with visa status other than F-1 may not enroll full-time. If students need tochange the number of hours they are taking, they should first contact the International Student Advisor(in One-Stop).International students who have questions regarding student visas, changes to immigration status, orother immigration issues should contact the International Student Advisor.ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLSProspective students for whom English is not their first language must take the Internet-based Test ofEnglish as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). For admission, Covenant Seminary requires a score of 84(written, 21; speaking, 24; reading, 20; listening, 19). For information, visit the TOEFL Website atwww.ets.org or write to TOEFL services, P.O. Box 6151, Princeton, NJ 08451, USA. (CovenantSeminary’s TOEFL code number is 6141).Students identified by the faculty as having weak English skills may be required to take courses in writtenand spoken English until their skills are judged to be adequate.[41]