Timeline for Is it possible to take overseas trips to see family while completing a US PhD?
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| Sep 24, 2022 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1573643414477967364 | ||
| Sep 20, 2022 at 18:35 | answer | added | Szabolcs | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 20, 2022 at 13:25 | history | edited | Buffy |
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| Sep 20, 2022 at 13:10 | comment | added | Buffy | If you have a TA, then you need to match travel to the academic calendar since you have time-sensitive responsibilities. However, as @pedroelpanda notes, you can do math even on a plane. | |
| Sep 20, 2022 at 13:04 | answer | added | quarague | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 20, 2022 at 6:36 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | IIRC my F1 visa needed an extra ok (a stamp or something) to allow re-entry without questions (basically to ascertain that I was allowed to continue with my studies). A fellow grad student from the UK got into minor trouble when travelling to Mexico for a week with his US fiancée without such an extra. Rules may have changed since though. | |
| Sep 20, 2022 at 6:32 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | My experience (a bit dated) is that the departments are very flexible. They will place some constraints though. Many grad students are funded via teaching assistantships, and those involve modest teaching duties. That will constrain the timing of your travelling. Similarly, if they offer a bit extra funding via a summer scolarship, the terms of such extras do include a certain amount of residence. Nothing unreasonable. | |
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| Sep 20, 2022 at 1:07 | history | edited | Azor Ahai -him- | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2022 at 0:32 | answer | added | Ben | timeline score: -2 | |
| Sep 20, 2022 at 0:29 | comment | added | pedroelpanda | Especially in mathematics, advisors tend to be very flexible, as for the most part you can work from anywhere. Every single person in my program visits their family every holiday season (the vast majority of them foreign students), and many of us also frequently go on trips during the summers and breaks. | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 19:16 | history | edited | Azor Ahai -him- | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 18:59 | comment | added | Buffy | Universities publish their academic calendar in advance. Most are similar. The big differences are whether the Spring term starts early or late in January and the placement of Easter/Spring break. There are a few outliers, though. | |
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 18:24 | answer | added | Azor Ahai -him- | timeline score: 10 | |
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 18:22 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | @k99731 And spring break. | |
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 18:20 | answer | added | Elizabeth Henning | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 18:08 | history | edited | JohnNash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 18:01 | comment | added | JohnNash | @k99731 what's the length of each holiday? can I travel without holidays too? | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 17:58 | history | edited | Sursula | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 17:58 | comment | added | open water | A PhD in math takes 5-6 years in the US. For going back home, there are two things that come into consideration: visa and time off. For visa, most F-1 visa are valid for 5 years so you can travel in and out freely during that 5 years. For holidays, there is the Thanksgiving, Christmas and new year, and summer. If you are not planning on teaching or going to conference during summer, you can do whatever you want. | |
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| S Sep 19, 2022 at 17:31 | history | asked | JohnNash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |