Our comprehensive guardianship service offers the highest level of monitoring and progress tracking. This comprehensive service provides students with the support they need to reach their full potential when away from home. Sometimes unexpected situations occur that require immediate attention. Cogito provides emergency contact information to our students, parents and schools where we can be contacted 24/7. We are determined to resolve any crisis as soon as possible! In 2015, about one million international students studied in the United States, and a significant portion of those students were under the age of 18. In the United States and many other countries around the world, the age of majority, or the age at which a person is legally considered an adult, is 18. Therefore, anyone below this age of transformation is officially still a minor and needs legal guardianship. When teenage international students leave their home country to study abroad in America, their parents will appoint a legal guardian to protect the child and help the student resolve academic, medical, or other issues. This article looks at who typically offers international students as guardianship and explains the requirements and responsibilities of these trusted tutors. It assures students, their parents and the schools they attend that if a student needs additional care, support or help, there is someone nearby who can and will help. To learn more about Ojisu`s guardianship services as well as other services, please visit ours.
Remember that you are not your student`s legal guardian. His parents abroad remain his legal guardians during the exchange, and EF High School Exchange Year is the designated visa sponsor for his stay in the United States. As a host family, you can access your online guardianship form on your EF Homestay portal if required. – We often talk to students and parents to see if there is anything we can help. An effective guardianship service, such as that offered by HSI, assumes the roles and responsibilities that birth parents would normally have. In assuming this responsibility, legal guardians have many obligations that they must fulfill in order to take care of the international student and their life abroad. For example, guardians must keep in touch with the student`s parents, the school and, if applicable, the host family. If the guardian is not the student`s host, he or she is required to assume responsibility for the student in case the student is released early from a foster family or expelled from a school. Tutors also agree to advise the student on academic, life-related, and medical decisions and issues.
We present our company, contact parents to enter into a communication agreement and collect information about the student. After signing the agreement, we will inform the school that guardianship has been established. In some cases, you may need to show your relationship with your exchange student. A custodial guardianship form confirms that you are the exchange student`s host family and that you have access to their grades and are authorized to provide urgent and routine medical care. When boarding schools close their dormitories, students usually have to leave campus. Cogito World Education guarantees all our students a few options to choose from for each school break: Students can apply for our primary guardianship if they: We help plan Covid-19 tests, arrange quarantine if the school requests it, and arrange for students who test positive. Ideal for long-term students, graduates or those who need to validate their studies. In case of emergency (campus closure, health, behavioral problems, etc.), our tutors are ready to pick up the student within 24 hours and ensure a safe and supervised temporary stay. During such a stay, we are in close contact with the school, the student, the guardians and the parents in order to regularly inform all those involved. Our tutors and our network of drivers guarantee the safety of your child on the way to school.
Transfers can be scheduled 7 days before pick-up. Our drivers are experienced, responsible and have clean driving records. They help students with their suitcases and help with check-in at the airport. If the student arrives late to check in at their school, we have a partnership with special boutique hotels where students can stay. We are here to ensure that students reach their full potential when they are away from home, and sometimes when students are struggling, we are available to solve these problems in a way that natural parents cannot solve remotely.