Non-FIU Students

This form is submitted through your home school.

This form may be submitted by student via email.

Placement at the NSE conference assures your NSE acceptance into FIU; however, a Visiting Student Application must be completed in order to be issued a Panther ID number. Please indicate to the FIU-NSE Office if you have a previously assigned Panther ID number with FIU. An FIU admissions application is not necessary so please do not fill one out.

Complete the Visiting Student Application

• MMR: Measles, Mumps, Rubella
• Hepatitis B
• Meningitis

This written document must be signed by a physician (M.D. or D.O.), a nurse practitioner or a registered nurse and stamped by the doctor’s office. Please mail or email this paperwork to the Student Health Services on either campus. FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES, A PANTHER ID NUMBER MUST BE INCLUDED ON THIS FORM. Phone calls from your physician are not acceptable.

If you have questions, contact the FIU Student Health Services, Health Compliance Unit:

Modesto A. Maidique Campus:

Biscayne Bay Campus:

Students can also e-mail questions to: immune@fiu.edu (please include "immunization" and your Panther ID in the subject line). 

The FIU IRS Tax Compliance University Requirement is only for International (F-1 visa) and Canadian (J-1 visa) students only. Puerto Rican students are considered U.S citizens and need not apply.

Prior to your NSE departure from FIU (during your exchange), you must schedule to meet with a Tax Compliance Representative at FIU in order to complete the Tax Compliance Forms.

Please email tax@fiu.edu, including your name and Panther ID number to request an appointment with a representative. Please include “NATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE” in the subject line. FIU Tax Compliance Representatives are Mairelys Perez and Silvia Cole.

All international and Canadian students participating in the FIU-NSE program must comply with the NRA tax compliance requirement.

You are required to submit the following documents to the Tax Compliance office:

• Copy of I-94 card
• Copy of passport (if applicable)
• Copy of visa - Foreign National Information Form
• I-20 (for F-1 visa)
• W-8 Ben form

Domestic students from other US states must show that you are enrolled in a health insurance plan and that you will be covered while on exchange at FIU, is required. This may be a copy of an insurance card or a letter from an insurance carrier. Please send this information directly to the FIU-NSE office by August 1, 2023.

If you are a Canadian student, please visit the Canadian Student page for specific instructions. Canadian students have additional health insurance requirements.

International Health Insurance: Students will not be able to register for courses without satisfying the following requirements with FIU: 

International students (F-1 Visa)  must coordinate adequate proof of international health insurance by either of the two options: 

1. Purchase alternative insurance coverage that complies with FIU requirements and with visa regulations. Alternative health insurance plans are listed on FIU’s Health Compliance website: FIU Approved Alternative Insurance Plans. Students must purchase the alternative insurance plan and work with the insurance provider directly. Finally, students must complete FIU's International Student Health Insurance 2023 - 2024 Compliance Form. This form should be completed by the insurance provider and sent to FIU Immunization. Contact FIU Health Compliance for assistance at 305-348-3336 or insure@fiu.edu. Fall 2023 dates for coverage: August 21, 2023 - December 9, 2023. 
2. Purchase FIU’s International Health Insurance plan with Academic Health Plan (AHP) for Fall 2023- ONLY.    
   
   • The FIU Insurance office emailed all international students with the option to enroll in the Academic Health Plan. It was emailed to the FIU email. All international NSE students should have received this email -including you! Otherwise, please reach out to us. 
   • 2023 – 2024 International Health Insurance plan: FIU Student Sponsored Health Insurance Plan

We have program events each term which will expose you to the exciting and beautiful South Florida region. There is a required non-refundable $85.00 charge for this whether you attend 1 or 2 terms at FIU. Payment link will be emailed directly to students. 

Sign, date and return the Waiver of Liability and Hold-Harmless Form directly to me. We must have this form on record for you in order for you to be eligible to participate in FIU/NSE activities.