TSA background check and Visa for non US citizens
M1 Visa Foreign Customers (News: 12/09/2009)
Florida Flyers is currently unable to assist obtaining or sponsor M1 Visa. Please check with your local US embassy what type of visa is appropriate for your intent. US embassy website .
Visa notice: Taking flight training without an appropriate visa could be a violation of your immigration status and could result in your arrest and removal from the United States; therefore, it is important that you have a visa that permits you to take flight training in the United States. If you do not possess the correct visa, or if you have questions pertaining to your visa status or the appropriate visas for flight training, please contact your local Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services at 800/375-5283 800/375-5283 or www.uscis.gov or the State Department Consular.
TSA Regulations (German)
TSA Regulations (English)
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Please register at www.flightschoolcandidates.gov Although many pilots are strongly opposed to it, the TSA's background check is required for nearly all foreign flight students in the United States. Security standards were dramatically tightened after 9/11. This procedure is a necessary safety rule. All foreign flight students intending to acquire a new license or new skills must undergo this routine check in the United States. Anyone earning a new license or rating, such as a PPL, instrument rating, or multi-engine rating, must submit to the TSA background check. Once you initiate the application, we will handle all further processing with the TSA. The only exceptions to this requirement are: students training on gliders, balloons, and airships, and PPLs earned solely for gliders, balloons or airships. However, these regulations DO apply to those earning any other sort of pilot license for the first time (including the Recreational Pilot License and the Sport Pilot License). The rules also apply to students completing a new instrument rating, AMEL (airplane multi engine land) rating, or AMES (airplane multi engine sea) rating. Flight students also fall into different categories based on whether they will train on aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) above 12,500 pounds (5700 kg). The flight school and Category 1 and 2 students (MTOW > 12,500 pounds) must get a green light from the TSA before beginning training. Students on lighter planes can go ahead and start training, but must halt their training if the TSA objects. The completed background check is valid for 180 days, and once it expires, no further training can be taken until it is renewed. If you like to work on two different ratings, e.g. first Instrument Rating and thereafter Multiengine Ratinger, you have to submitt two seperate applications. For each course one application. The Commercial Pilot License and all CFI and ATP Licenses are generally exempted from the TSA rule. For those licenses you do not have to apply. TSA currently charges an administration fee of $130.00.
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TSA currently charges a fee of $130.00 |
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