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Ms. Chen問：
My 11 year old nephew has spent the last two summer school holidays in the US with us, attending a summer camp in US. He also came to visit with his parents for this winter holiday. He really wants to study in the US. When he was here we visited a local Christian school (Hillcrest Christian School-a private school which provides a similar arrangement for overseas students and is listed in SEVIS schools), and they offered him a place there. My sister applied for an F-1 student visa, and he was recently interviewed and denied an F-1 visa by the US Embassy in Shanghai, China. The Visa Officer in Shanghai said my nephew is too young for a US Christian school and rejected his application for the F-1 visa. We have a few options now:
1. should my nephew wait and apply for a student visa in China again next year?
2. should he apply for a tourist visa in China and apply for the transferring the student visa after entering the US next year. (we have a concern that his tourist visa may be rejected after his application for a student visa was rejected).
3. he has a multiple entry visa valid until May 2012 - should we let him enter the US before expiration of his tourist visa and try to transfer the tourist visa to student visa in the US – we were expecting him to visit for the winter holiday with his mother anyway?

Immigration Express答：
您的侄子要在上海領事館重新申請F-1學生簽證，不需要等到明年，只要有新情況新理由，就可以重新去簽證；但小留學生的學生簽證難度比較高，第二次申請要準備充分，以免不充足再次被拒，給以後的簽證帶來更多困難。需要準備的材料有財力證明、美方監護人和sponsor的證明、小孩子本人的證明材料以及由父母代寫的一封申請信等等。

如果他用B-2簽證進美國再改為F-1學生，一般來說，如果B-2簽證未標注prospective student，將來要在美國改成學生，也是很困難，難度不比在領事館簽證低。

我們曾多次幫助F-1被拒學生重新申請到學生簽證，也為14歲以下的小留學生申請過F-1，相信也可以幫到您的侄子來美國讀書。如有任何問題，歡迎與我們聯繫：
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