Teaching students with a VISA?

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kr575m

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A student contacted me and asked if I would finish off his pilot training. He's from India and has VISA that lists the flight school that he went to previously. He does not like the school and wants to train with me on his own.

What do i need to do to be able to train him? Are there anyways around this? Who is going to check his visa? Will the examiner ask for it?
 
Legally you can do nothing. You must be a 141 school to sponsor a visa and if the student leaves a school that student must apply to the new school for sponsorship. That sponsor is responsible for the students actions while in the country. Without it the student is an illegal alien and giving instruction in that situation is a major crime.

Secondly, the FAA is not necessarily concerned with this. It is a TSA, customs, and immigration issue. But the DCA requires a large amount of paperwork to be filled out by the students returning for certificate conversion. The school is required to sign off on much of this paperwork. Each student will also need a stamp from the school on each page of the logbook authenticating the entry's.

What you can do is find a 141 school that will hire you under the condition that you will be providing your own students.
 
Thanks. That's kind of what i figured, just hoping there was loophole in the system. Proposing to bring a student to a 141 school shouldn't be hard, i know most of them are hurting these days.
 
As stated, there are a few hurdles:

First, you will have to register as a flight training provider and have him submit another TSA application.

Secondly, you must be a SEVIS approved school and have him transferred over.
 
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