LCI Announcements and Upcoming Events

Announcements

TUITION PAYMENTS
Tuition Payments for self-pay students was due February 1st. Bills are paid at the university Bursar's Office in the Student Services Building or online at: https://www.lci.vt.edu/elp/Students/ with credit card only (not a debit card). Students who do not pay on time will be removed from class until their bills are settled.

IMPORTANT TAX INFORMATION
All F and B visa holders must complete this form for tax purposes: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8843.pdf a hard copy is located in the Annex. Feel free to ask Robert McGinnis at the Annex for assistance. The deadline is April 15.

IMMIGRATION UPDATE
If you are an F-1 visa holder, you must report your new address to your immigration advisor. Students must update addresses with either Diana or Beth in the Annex.

VT E-MAIL ACCOUNT
Every student to the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute will need to set up an e-mail account. This e-mail account will be used to send you important notices and bills. You will use this account as long as you are a Virginia Tech student. The e-mail username you choose is also called a PID, or "Personal IDentifier." With your PID and an associated password, you can access online Virginia Tech services. You will create your PID from the Generate PID page at https://webapps.es.vt.edu/pidgen/start.html. Your student identification number (printed on your student identification card) will be needed to set up your account. STUDENTS SHOULD CHECK VT EMAIL REGULARLY.

TOEFL
All students currently enrolled for Spring I are eligible to take the TOEFL ITP. Please remember to write down your time when you register. Please click on the link of the date and time you would like to register below. You will then be re-directed to the payment site.
February 17, 2PM: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZZT5823
February 18, 9AM: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5KQLDJW
February 18, 2PM: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5LJCFJJ

Please pay immediately at this site: https://www.lci.vt.edu/elp/Pay/InstitutionalTOEFL/ All sponsored students are required to pay for the exam. The exam will no longer be billed to your sponsoring institution.

On the day of the test, remember to arrive 15 minutes early with your Hokie Passport. The ITP will be scored at the institute and the unofficial scores will be placed in the Annex and outside the main office under each student's Hokie Passport ID number the Monday following the test.


Events

Saturday, February 4th
Shopping Trip to Roanoke Mall
Meet at the LCI at 11:30am
Sign up on bulletin board

Friday, February 10th
Trip to Dixie Caverns
Meet at the LCI at 2pm
Sign up on the bulletin board
Cost: $12

Sunday, February 12th
Hiking trip to Cascades
Meet at the LCI at 10am
Sign up on the bulletin board

Friday, February 17th
Trip to Homeplace Restaurant
Meet at the LCI at 4pm
Sign up on the bulletin board
Cost $20

Tuesday & Wednesday, February 21 and 22
Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
The DMV will be available from 9am-4pm at the VT Cranwell International Center for Driver’s license applications, State IDs, and additional services.

IMPORTANT NOTICES

VTLCI publishes important notices for all students on its website in several locations. Students are strongly encouraged to subscribe to these services to make sure they receive important announcements and news. Signing up is as easy as entering your e-mail address on each site:

Campus Alerts
VT Alerts is Virginia Tech's Emergency Notification System. In a campus emergency, Virginia Tech will use several information delivery methods to reach students because, at any given time, one form of communications might be better to reach you than another. VT Alerts is one of the delivery means, and will send messages to cell phones, telephone numbers and e-mail accounts. Students are strongly encouraged to register for VT Alerts on the VT website at http://www.alerts.vt.edu/.

Notices: http://vtlci-notices.blogspot.com/
Weather Alerts (Blacksburg): http://vtlci-weather.blogspot.com/
VTLCI News: http://vtlci-bb.blogspot.com/

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