FAQs: General [Updated 1/12/22]
FAQs: Health and Safety [Updated 1/12/22]
- What should we do if a participant requests to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or booster?
- What if the local volunteer team and/or host families are not comfortable speaking with (or do not yet have access to speak with) the sending parent(s)/guardian(s) and participant about their COVID-19 vaccine openness/status?
- Will AFS require participants, host families and/or volunteers to have the COVID-19 vaccine and/or booster?
- What if the host school requires the AFS Participant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and/or booster?
- What if the AFS participant has questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, a COVID-19 booster vaccine, or the host family has questions about the AFS participant being eligible/receiving the COVID-19 vaccine?
- What should we advise a host family if their student gets sick or another member of the host family gets sick?
FAQs: Placements [Updated 1/12/22]
FAQs: Travel and Orientations [Updated 1/12/22]
- When will students arrive for the 2022-23 school year (SM/YPscNH22)?
- How will students travel to our Team?
- How can our Area Team begin to prepare for NH22 Core arrivals?
- Will students need to quarantine upon their arrival in the U.S.?
- When will students return home?
- What is the plan for 2021-22 and 2022-23 Orientations?
FAQs: Support and Compliance [Updated 1/12/22]
FAQs: Study Abroad [Updated 1/12/22]
- What is the status of Summer and Fall 2022 Programs?
- Will Study Abroad participants be able to obtain visas?
- What are some of the specific tasks with which AFS-USA sending volunteers can assist?
- What is the plan for the Pre-Departure and Gateway Orientation(s)?
- Why is AFS implementing a new Online Pre-Departure Orientation Module and when will it be available?
- What is the AFS Student Learning Journey and the new Online Component of the Student Learning Journey?