14 y/o Nephew coming to stay on tourist visa - attend public school?

[Anonymous]

If my nephew comes from Asia to stay with us for 6 months, can he attend MCPS at our inbound school? We have a family scenario requiring someone to care for him and it looks like it will be us.

Has anyone been through this or know what I need to do? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

It took me 4 seconds to type in “Registration” on the MCPS site, and this was the first thing that came up.

Come on, OP. Require more of yourself.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/studentservices/schooling/iae

[Anonymous]

I’m hoping to get my dual US citizen nephew to come live with us for a year before the end of HS so he can improve his English. I am not at all concerned with the enrollment paperwork beyond ensuring that I have the necessary American documents executed for temporary guardianship. DCPS and I assume MCPS do not require you to do anything wrt citizenship due to the fact that schools are constitutionally forbidden from it.

If DCPS were not so laughably lax about collecting health forms and vax records, I might be slightly worried about finding a doctor who would fill out the forms in the absence of prior records or require some kind of parental consent that wasn’t possible. So hopefully you have a document from the parents giving you medical guardianship? If not, you could try contacting an immigrant organization like CASA MD to see what they recommend.

But honestly DCPS and MCPS likely deal with a lot of kids with even less paperwork. The key may be local school administrators not being uptight about it - in DCPS they never are but MCPS may be different. At the end of the day they are educators and they are not going to bar or kick a child out due lack of paperwork. The six months will have passed before anything gets even close to official.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took me 4 seconds to type in “Registration” on the MCPS site, and this was the first thing that came up.

Come on, OP. Require more of yourself.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/studentservices/schooling/iae

I don’t know about MCPS but for DCPS I would simply fill out the IB enrollment form and not go through any additional bureaucratic process. They don’t have the right to keep the kid out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took me 4 seconds to type in “Registration” on the MCPS site, and this was the first thing that came up.

Come on, OP. Require more of yourself.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/studentservices/schooling/iae

I don’t know about MCPS but for DCPS I would simply fill out the IB enrollment form and not go through any additional bureaucratic process. They don’t have the right to keep the kid out.

You’re funny. You’d actually have to fill out an Other Primary Caregiver form since the birth certificate would show that you’re not the parent.
https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/sites/dcpsenrollment/files/page_content/attachments/2024%2025%20School%20Year%20OPC%20Form%20English.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took me 4 seconds to type in “Registration” on the MCPS site, and this was the first thing that came up.

Come on, OP. Require more of yourself.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/studentservices/schooling/iae

I don’t know about MCPS but for DCPS I would simply fill out the IB enrollment form and not go through any additional bureaucratic process. They don’t have the right to keep the kid out.

This is a board for MCPS. Please post on the DCPS board to answer questions related to that school.system.

[Anonymous]

You may need the proper visa.

[Anonymous]

You will need to have signed legal custody of the child. I cannot send my kid to live with his cousin on the other side of town to attend a better school, let alone another country. To educate an esol student is $$$$—if the custodial guardians aren’t in the county the child cannot attend without paying tuition.

[Anonymous]

Its called a tourist visa. This kid won't be a tourist. Stop trying to cheat everyone and get free stuff for non-citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will need to have signed legal custody of the child. I cannot send my kid to live with his cousin on the other side of town to attend a better school, let alone another country. To educate an esol student is $$$$—if the custodial guardians aren’t in the county the child cannot attend without paying tuition.

Sure they can. If the child’s residence is with the relatives they go to school where they reside. There are many many more kids in informal arrangements like this that you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its called a tourist visa. This kid won't be a tourist. Stop trying to cheat everyone and get free stuff for non-citizens.

Someone's salty today...

[Anonymous]

Come one, come all... we have enough money to educate EVERYONE in Montgomery County...

[Anonymous]

I hope your nephew is doing OK or will be OK.
It sounds like there’s a family crisis in the offing.

If he comes here, please beware of (possibly delayed) cultural shock.

Best of luck. You are a good person, OP.

[Anonymous]

Put him in a private school so you’re not a burden on your neighbors. They won’t question you if the check clears. But let me guess you want free? But it’s not free you just want other people to pay.

[Anonymous]

Students may enroll in public school regardless of immigration status. Plyler vs Doe Supreme Court decision from 1982.

The "tourist" visa to the US is a B-2, and it permits "visit with friends or relatives" in addition to tourism.

If your nephew will be 15 by the time the new school year starts, you could instead have them be an exchange student:

https://j1visa.state.gov/programs/secondary-school-student/