Inviting Family Members and Friends to Visit

Sharing your Georgetown experience with loved ones is a wonderful opportunity.

Follow this guidance to help your guests apply for a U.S. visitor visa.

1. Write a letter of invitation. Click to view a template.

• Confirm that you are (or were) a full-time Georgetown student.
• Express your intention to invite your guest(s) to visit you in the United States.
• Include your guest’s name, birth date, relationship to you, and passport number.
• Indicate whether you will provide room and board for your guest(s) during the visit.
• Indicate the approximate length of the visit in order to underscore plans to return home.
• If graduation is the occasion of the visit, include the details of Commencement.
• You may include information for multiple guests in one letter or provide individual letters for each person.

2. Share a copy of your most recent I-94 and Form I-20 or Form DS-2019 as evidence of your U.S. student status.

3. Download an unofficial transcript from GU Experience to show your academic status.

4. Locate the nearest U.S. consular mission for specific instructions regarding the B-1/B-2 visa application.