<p>I want to joing the Israeli army after high school through a program that allows foreign citizens to serve in the army for 14.5 months in regular combat divisions. How and is it possible to get a deferrment for that long of a period.</p>
<p>skiatomic, most colleges allow a year's deferral. If you graduate in May and start in September that allows 15 months.</p>
<p>As far as I know, deferrals are granted with no questions asked. Of course they like you to do something productive but I don't think that the deferral is conditional on the activity. You would need to verify this with the individual colleges that you are interested in.</p>
<p>I live abroad and know many kids who defer for a year to fulfill their countries' military service requirements. It's a little different for an American volunteering in a foreign army (that's what you mean, right?) but I think the concept still applies. </p>
<p>I have a question of my own: As an American are you allowed to fight for another country?</p>
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<p>Yes, you are.....here is the info regarding this:</p>
<p> [quote] A U.S. citizen who is a resident or citizen of a foreign country may be subject to compulsory military service in that country. Although the United States opposes service by U.S. citizens in foreign armed forces, there is little that we can do to prevent it since each sovereign country has the right to make its own laws on military service and apply them as it sees fit to its citizens and residents.</p>
<p>Such participation by citizens of our country in the internal affairs of foreign countries can cause problems in the conduct of our foreign relations and may involve U.S. citizens in hostilities against countries with which we are at peace. For this reason, U.S. citizens facing the possibility of foreign military service should do what is legally possible to avoid such service.</p>
<p>Federal statutes long in force prohibit certain aspects of foreign military service originating within the United States. The current laws are set forth in Section 958-960 of Title 18 of the United States Code. In Wiborg v. U.S. , 163 U.S. 632 (1985), the Supreme Court endorsed a lower court ruling that it was not a crime under U.S. law for an individual to go abroad for the purpose of enlisting in a foreign army; however, when someone has been recruited or hired in he United States, a violation may have occurred. The prosecution of persons who have violated 18 U.S.C. 958-960 is the responsibility of the Department of Justice.</p>
<p>Although a person's enlistment in the armed forces of a foreign country may not constitute a violation of U.S. law, it could subject him or her to Section 349(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1481(a)(3)] which provides for loss of U.S. nationality if an American voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship enters or serves in foreign armed forces engaged in hostilities against the United States or serves in the armed forces of any foreign country as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer.
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<p>skiatomic89,</p>
<p>Thank you for your bravery and willingness to serve. It is an honor to wish you well.</p>