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Don't see your question here? Contact our Fellowship Leads, Alejandra Pérez, at alejandra@scholarfundwa.org or Yuriana Garcia Tellez at yuriana@scholarfundwa.org.
As of this moment, the Cultural Leadership Fellowship does not have an immigration attorney to serve as a legal representative for each fellow. However, each accepted fellow will get support from the team to submit their Advance Parole application.
This program falls under the education category. We will provide all evidence required for the Advance Parole application for all accepted fellows. This will include, but is not limited to, an acceptance letter, program itinerary, website, and more.
Everyone in this program will apply to a single entry Advance Parole.
In order to travel to another country outside of the program, you will need to put those countries in your Advance Parole application for your ethnographic project. There is a chance you may need to present extra evidence to ensure that USCIS accepts your application with the additional countries.
The ethnography section of the trip will occur immediately the 10-day trip to the selected countries for 2-3 weeks depending on the fellow.
3 months total is the typical Advance Parole approved time for this program.
Yes, we will provide support to all applicants to ensure they can secure any needed visas for the countries we are visiting through the program.
Everyone will travel on the same day to their designated program and will arrive around the same time. Fellows traveling form the same state will be encouraged to travel together. We will pick everyone up at the airport and head to our designated hotel. All of these details will be coordinated with the program staff and fellows prior to traveling.
You can apply to all of the programs, but will be selected for only one of them.
Fully vaccinated means the first two COVID-19 vaccines, and you are required to show proof upon applying, so you need to be fully vaccinated for the application. The most-up-to date booster is required before travel, but not for the application, regardless of CDC guidelines.
No, there isn’t a requirement of language fluency for any of the programs.
Yes, but everyone is encouraged to apply to the international program regardless if they are native or not to those countries.
No, this would not be an issue. You can still apply even if you are renewing your DACA.
Yes, your passport is needed by the travel date, but not needed by the application due date.
Yes!
Virtual classes should be less than 3 hours, we will be in touch with the fellows regarding times.
Right now we are only planning for 2023, but we hope to plan for 2024 sometime in 2023!
Minimum 10 people per program, but could accept a few more per program depending on capacity.
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