A manual of U.S. immigration law and regulations pertaining to foreign students and scholars is presented to assist foreign student advisers. Overall topics include nonimmigrant status, student (F) status, exchange visitor (J) status, temporary worker or trainee (H) status, other nonimmigrant classes, and immigrant status. Specific areas include: passports, visas, arrival-departure record (Form I-94), alien registration and address report, extension of temporary stay, change of nonimmigrant classification, voluntary departure, departure, issuance of form I-20 to F-1 students, elimination of duration of status, maintenance of status, employment, visits abroad and reentry, change of status, departure or termination of status, spouse/dependent (F-2) status, issuance of Form IAP-66 for exchange visitors, two-year home country residence requirement, special factors governing participants in medical fields, exchange visitor dependents (J-2), H-1 and H-2 temporary worker status, H-3 trainee status, H-4 dependent status, nonimmigrant classification less commonly encountered in educational institutions (e.g., diplomats, visitors for business or pleasure), change of nonimmigrant classification, the Immigration and Nationality Act as Amended, the selection system (qualitative standards, numerical limitations, the preference system, ineligibility for immigrant status, and procedures for establishing qualifications for immigrant status), labor certification, appeals and reconsideration, deportation, and refugees and asylum. Appended materials include a fee schedule, sample forms, a map of immigration and naturalization service regional and district areas, a list of visa issuing posts, and a bibliography. (SW)