Undergraduate Checklist and Timeline - Communications

Step 2 – Communications

Website

Not applicable

E-mail

• Dartmouth College uses it’s own version of e-mail, called “BlitzMail.”
  • To access BlitzMail, admitted students are given an initial password.
    • For more information contact Help@dartmouth.edu
  • Any person or office can be contacted by e-mail using the following protocol, examples:
    • First.Lastname@dartmouth.edu
    • Visa.and.Immigration.Services@Dartmouth.edu

Instructions With Regard to the Visa Process

• To send information to the Office of Visa and Immigration Services:
  • Required documents may be
    • copied and sent via the postal service or a private shipping company;
    • faxed to our office using the number 1-603-646-1616; or
    • attached as e-mail enclosures sent to Sheri.Ball@Dartmouth.edu
      • Faxes or e-mail enclosures must be followed by “original copies” sent via post or private shipping company.
• Receiving information from the Office of Visa and Immigration Services:
  • I-20 forms and related information is sent to each admitted international student by UPS Express, shipping paid by Dartmouth College.
  • Once shipped, UPS Express e-mails the student with a tracking number so that the student may go on line and check the progress of the I-20 package.

Questions

• For lost passwords or other issues concerning BlitzMail contact HELP@dartmouth.edu
• Concerning documents sent to the Office of Visa and Immigration Services, contact Visa.and.Immigration.Services@Dartmouth.edu

Time Frame

• Dartmouth Name Directory ("DND")/BlitzMail (the Dartmouth e-mail system) account information will be sent to students by the First Year Office in late May.
• I-20s will be mailed after all required forms and documents are received by the Office of Visa and Immigration Services. Typically one week is required for production and shipping of an I-20.

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