Special Entrance Requirements

Manhattan Area Technical College is not approved by the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Services to accept students seeking admission through a foreign student visa. Individuals seeking admission who are not U.S. citizens or not born in the United States may apply for admission if they meet one of the following criteria:

  1. Non-citizen national. The applicant must produce a passport stamped “Non-citizen National.”
  2. Permanent Resident
    1. Alien Registration Receipt Card.” (Form I-151, I-551, or I551C). The applicant must produce one of these documents with a currently valid expiration date.
    2. Passport. The applicant must produce a passport stamped “Processed for I-551” with a valid expiration date.
    3. I-94. The student must produce an I-94 that is stamped “Processed for I-551” with a valid expiration  date,  or   “Temporary   Form I-551” with appropriate information filled in.
  3. Other Eligible Non-citizen
    1. “Temporary Resident Card” (Form I-699). The applicant must produce this document with a valid expiration date.
    2. “Arrival-Departure Record” (Form I-94). The applicant must produce this document stamped as a Refugee Asylum Status, Conditional Entrant (before April 1, 1980), Parolee, Cuban-Haitian Entrant.

Criteria for establishing citizenship if not born in the United States:

  1. Certificate of Citizenship. The applicant must produce a Certificate of Citizenship, which includes the applicant’s name, certificate number, and the date the certificate was issued.
  2. Certificate of Naturalization. The applicant must produce a Certificate of Naturalization, which includes the applicant’s name, certificate number, Alien Registration Number, name of the court (and date) where naturalization occurred.
  3. Certification of Birth Abroad. (Form FS-545, DS-1350, FS-240) Report of Birth Abroad. The applicant must produce one of these documents which include an embossed seal, “United States of America” and “State Department.”
  4. U.S. Passport.

In addition to meeting one of the above criteria non-U.S. Citizen Students must:

  1. Fulfill all college entrance requirements in addition to special entrance requirements.
  2. Provide Manhattan Area Technical College with a certificate that the “Test of English as a Foreign Language” (TOEFL) has been completed preceding application to MATC with the minimum cut scores prescribed in the Nursing TOEFL testing section. For eligible applicants TOEFL Waivers are located under the admissions forms webpage.

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