The Great Saleh Elmohamed Catastrophe
	Saleh is a Syracuse PhD student who will defend his PhD momentarily 
with myself as supervisor and who I wish to appoint as a postdoc at FSU.
	
	Saleh has managed to drive an almost fatal Immigration barb through
his heart. This self inflicted wound involved wasting all of his practical
training allowance.
	Thus he can only get a J1 H1 or F1 visa.
H1 visas are on hold as supply exhausted
J1 visas require you to go back home
So only an F1 visa is possible.

	Pat Burak -- head of Immigration Services at Syracuse -- has found an
ingenious way for this to work. You can transfer an F1 visa from
Syracuse to FSU as long as you engage in a "structured program of
study" and are only funded for 20 hours a week research. 
The formal requirement is:
"Only those postdoctoral fellows pursuing an educational 
objective that requires a combination of course work and no more than 
20 hours of research per week while school is in session.are 
certifiable as F-1 students." 

	So I propose the following structured program
Postdoctoral study in Computational Science and Information Technology (CSIT)
20 hours of funded research and four CSIT courses as follows.
Semester 1: Computational Science I and Information Technology I
Semester 2: Either Computational Science II or Information Technology II
			plus a CSIT elective to be chosen with agreement of advisor
The study also involves presenting an original piece of research in CSIT
at the end of the second semester.
	The whole program lasts two semesters during which time Saleh can get 
an H1 visa.

We  believe that one only needs a well formed program of study and not
an approved "degree'.

Thus let us propose this to FSU Graduate school and see what happens.
We have to work fast. Saleh's F1 visa expires July 31 2000.

Larry Dennis; Does this seem OK to you?
Annie: please submit formal paperwork.
Thank you