Please read the following before proceeding with this form.
If a faculty sponsor has a previous VRS returning to campus, the VRS’s access may be reinstated without submitting a new VRS Questionnaire if the following eligibility criteria are met and a justification is submitted via this Returning VRS Request Form:
Eligibility:
- The returning visitor must still fit the definition of a VRS
- The scope of the returning visit must be the same as the previous visit
- The faculty sponsor must be the same as the previous visit
- Must be within 1 year of leaving the previous visit and must be within 3 years of completing the full VRS registration.
- The home institution/employer of the visitor must be the same as the initial/previous visit in which the visitor signed the Visitor Agreement.
The request form includes:
- VRS name and/or tracking number from initial visit
- VRS DOB, Gender listed on government issued document and, if applicable, passport number and country.
- Faculty Sponsor name
- New visit dates for the time they will be on campus
- Confirmation that the access needed is the same as the last visit (ex. Campus, building, labs, UGA systems requiring a MyID, etc)
- Confirm that the agreement terms, VRS's home institution, and the scope of the returning visit are the same as the previous visit (ex. Is their role the same?)
- Confirm that the Faculty Sponsor/Hosting Unit has contacted the Office of Global Engagement-Immigration Services if applicable.