in their host community; students are not permitted
to stay with their host families after the Program
Completion Date. NO exceptions to this policy will
be permitted unless the host family formally asks
the Campus Coordinator for an exception. When
recruited to host by the Campus Coordinators,
families are asked to make a commitment to
host until the Program Completion Date. YFU
college students must respect their host families’
expectations that the hosting experience (and all
the obligations associated with hosting) ends on the
Program Completion Date;
2. to travel to other regions of the United States at their
own expense.
Students who do not complete their academic program
with a cumulative grade point average of 2.0, or those that
have been placed on probation for any reason, may not be
granted an independent, post-program travel option.
Students who do not complete their academic program
with a cumulative grade point average of 2.0, or those that
have been placed on probation for any reason, may not be
granted an independent, post-program travel option.
Departure travel arrangements.
CCP students are able to choose their return date (or a
range of days for the return date). The return date must
be after the last day of exams at the student’s college
and before their visa expiration (For F-1 visa students, 60
days after the last day of classes at the student’s college).
Students must depart from the airport at which they arrived
at the beginning of their program. If students wish to depart
from an alternative airport, they will be charged a change
fee. YFU Travel will arrange each student’s flight from the US
to their home country according to the information provided
on the Return Travel Request Form that will be given to each
student by their Campus Coordinator. YFU USA will set a
required date for the completed form to be returned to YFU
USA. If the form is not returned to YFU USA by the required
date, YFU Travel will select a date and schedule return travel
arrangements by the end of program date. Once the form
is submitted to YFU USA, the requested return date will
be final. Any changes will be subject to a prepaid airline
cancellation fee of $300.00 or more.
It is imperative that students consider all responsibilities
that await them upon their arrival home. Commitments to
jobs, military service, families or other pressing obligations
must be considered carefully before the student selects a
preferred date to travel home. It is the responsibility of the
Campus Coordinator to reiterate these facts to students as
they complete their Return Travel Request Forms.
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Visits from Natural Parents and Home Country
Friends
Natural families, relatives and home country friends should
not visit the exchange student, especially during the initial
adjustment period. Such interruptions break the continuity
of the student’s relationship with the host family and may
diminish the exchange experience. This sometimes leads
to adjustment difficulties so serious that YFU may have to
consider early return of the student.
Host families and community college staff report that visits
from natural families and others often are inconvenient
and disruptive to their lives as well as to the exchange
experience. Please remember that the college program
places an average of 5–12 students at each community
college. Since YFU students must attend classes regularly,
natural families and others insisting on visits usually
schedule them at the same breaks—often during the
holiday seasons—in the academic year. The
Campus Coordinators and host families are committed to
the exchange students’ experience; they are not obliged to
entertain visitors.
Anyone considering such visits must contact YFU in their
home country before any arrangements are made. Host
families must contact their Campus Coordinator if and when
they learn that natural parents or home country friends plan
to visit.
If natural family members, relatives or home country friends
insist on visiting during the independent, post-program
travel option, YFU will not change students’ return travel
itineraries to accommodate the schedules of such visitors.
NO exceptions to the departure deadline (to be established)
will be permitted.
Natural families, relatives, and home country friends who
choose to visit even though YFU strongly discourages
such visits should not expect host families or Campus
Coordinators to provide or arrange lodging and meals for
them. Visitors are not permitted to stay in the host family’s
home unless the host family f