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Can you bring your boyfriend while studying abroad?

  • Both me and boyfriend will be attending college next fall. I'm heading off to a four year school and a few miles down the road my boyfriend will be attending a community college. We've discussed some of the things I wish to do the next year when I could qualify to study abroad for a semester. I'm very interested in taking a semester to Ireland and England both but being as we've been together for the past few years we'd like to stay close. His college courses will probably be over by then and we wondered if they allow students like me who want to study abroad to bring their partner. I assume that we would have to purchase his ticket for the way over but could he still stay at the same housing as me? I know at normal colleges in the US you can have visitors and even occasionally have your boyfriend stay with you in the dorms whether or not he attends the college depending on if your roommate had no problem with it. Is it different in Ireland and England? I want to take this experience as I feel its a once in a lifetime opportunity but not at the cost of my boyfriend and I's relationship. :/

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    For a study aboard program through a US college to a college in another country, no your boyfriend can not stay with you for a whole semester. He may be allowed to spend A night if he came to visit you. Sorry, but you are adults now and have been together for two years. Your relationship can not survive 3 months apart??

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No. If your boyfriend is not on a student visa or a worker visa, he cannot spend more than 90 days with you. Your housing will more than likely be provided by your study abroad organization and if that's the case he would not be able to be housed by them. While you could potentially let him stay with you, they would not give him housing. If you find your own housing in a flat or something, it's a different case though he still could not be there for more than 90 days. On that note, don't let your relationship get in the way of you studying abroad. A strong relationship can survive one of the partners being abroad. Lots of people with significant others go abroad and their relationships last. I've evern known a few who have gotten married. So even if he can't come with you, you should still go because if you don't there's a good chance that you'll regret not doing it.

I agree completely with "Moi." If your relationship cannot survive 6 months or so of study abroad, it's not worth holding on to. It's doubtful any housing you have will allow your boyfriend to stay with you for more than a weekend or so - if you choose a program where you provide your own housing it may be possible, but most study abroads either place students in dorms or in homestays, and he won't be welcome there for a long period of time, if at all. Even if you do find a program where it's possible, I would highly, highly recommend that you go without him. Have him visit for a couple weeks if you must see him. Part of the value of studying abroad is to take you out of your comfort zone and to stretch you as a person in ways you can't even imagine. Having someone so close to you around all the time will prevent you from taking full advantage of the opportunity. I know you haven't been able to think this through completely yet as you're not even in college, but I'm also curious about what he's going to be doing for six months while you go to class, study, etc. Even on a 90 day visa he's going to have a lot of free time & you'll be very busy - is he going to sit in the apartment all day?

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Actually a visa for US citizens last 6 months. That being said he can stay in England with you but he'll have to find his own accommodation and things since you're the student and he isn't. Why doesn't he just apply as well? Its possible to apply on your own and not through your school.

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