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 20, 2021.

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

If you are an international student with an F-1 visa coming from another U.S. state, please read the Health Insurance section on Before You Arrive. 

International students (F-1 Visa) from U.S. institutions are required to

• • Purchase FIU’s International Health Insurance Plan at FIU Student Health 
    OR
  • Complete the Alternate Health Insurance Compliance Form found on FIU Student Health. This form should be completed by your current insurance company and sent to the SHS department by July 1:

Health Compliance Unit, Student Health Services
SHC Room 101
11200 SW 8th St.
Miami, FL 33199
Email: insurance@fiu.edu

PLEASE IDENTIFY on the form your NSE participation and Panther ID number. A denial of this form implies only that the policy presented does not meet the minimum criteria established by FIU with respect to specific medical insurance coverage for registration and/or enrollment. Thus, you will be required to purchase FIU’s International Health Insurance Plan prior to processing your registration with FIU.

 For further information, you may refer to Student Health Services website. Further inquiries can be made via telephone at 305-348-2401 or via email at insurance@fiu.edu.

We have program events each term which will expose you to the exciting and beautiful South Florida region. There is a required non-refundable $80.00 charge for this whether you attend 1 or 2 terms at FIU. Please make your payment by cashier’s check or money-order, payable to FIU/NSE and include it with your mailings to the FIU-NSE Office. NO PERSONAL CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED! International/Canadian checks or money-orders must be drawn from a U.S. bank, otherwise your payment will NOT be accepted.

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.