How strict are TECOs about having original documents?

Legal Visa & Residency
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I’m planning on applying for a visitor visa to study in a degree program. The TECO website claims I need the original admissions letter.

If I only have a copy of the admissions letter will they refuse to issue the visa?

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Why give them the opportunity to reject you?

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My problem is that I am stuck outside the US because of Covid. The university is sending my admissions letter to the US and then I will forward it from there. But that process may take a few weeks. So ideally I would hope the TECO accepts a copy. It’s such a unnecessary rule anyway, the univ must give my name to the MOE so TECO will already know via MOE that I’ve been accepted.

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Very

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Print in color.
Problem solved.

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fify

yea, I don’t think they’d fall for a color copy…

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I make suggestion based on experience.
I dont see your suggestion? Only criticism.

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That worked for you? Then you got lucky. In my experience, they wanted to see the original.

they might accept a copy if it was notarized.

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I thought about printing in color but there’s no way that works for a diploma which has a raised seal. And transcripts of course have special paper that wouldn’t look the same as a color copy

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Though you said admission letter…
No mention of transcript or diploma.

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Same thing, I’m sure the admission letter has some fancy stamps and shit. This whole thing is so absurd

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Now you’ll realize how people in the redtvv V of the work suffer when they apply for US visa.