Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
I really can't even start to explain how wrong you are there.
So I'll skip that part.
F1 allows gaining 'practical work experience' which does NOT exclude flight instruction towards the ATP requirements.
But it does mean you need to be enrolled in relevant college courses.
Which 99% of the time means you should have gotten the F1 before enrolling and before starting your flight training and the training would have been included in the courses you enrolled for because other wise....you wouldn't have been able to legally undergo flight training.
https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/pilots...sa-information
You can't get an F1 after the fact and having completed your flight training for the sole purpose of gaining the 'practical work experience'.
I'm not wrong.
CP/CFI/CFII don't even need the TSA security assessment, only initial private, instrument and multi do. You don't need a "visa" to do flight training. You need a visa to seek entry if the purpose of your visit is enrolling in a full time course of study.
You missed the whole point; Are you sure you fully understand what a visa is? I think you confuse visa, and status.
He can legally study with his H4, he's 100% compliant with everything at the moment. He obviously won't be able to switch to "F1" just to be able to "work". Flight school wouldn't sponsor him F1 to work as a flight instructor (if they do, that's fraud. I know it happens but most big schools use a different category for their foreign flight instructors). He'll just have to adjust his status for that.