<p>I'm a Malaysian student looking to apply for a transfer to an American college. The thing is...my passport will only be valid for two more years. Meaning that if I transfer to the States, my passport will have expired before I complete my studies.</p>
<p>So I explained this to my local immigration office in hopes of getting my passport renewed for another five years, so I don't run into this problem. But they say that they have a no-renewing policy unless my passport has *less *than 2 years left.</p>
<p>They told me to produce proof, i.e. to print out a webpage from a university that basically says: "As an international student, your passport needs to be valid for at least (x) amount of months after graduation".</p>
<p>Problem is...I can't find such a condition on any uni's website at all. Help?</p>
<p>You can come here to study, and renew your passport while you are here. Usually that means a trip to the city where the consulate of your country that is responsible for the location of your college or university. It really is not a big deal.</p>
<p>Technically speaking, you can get a student visa that’s valid for longer than your passport. You’d apply for a new passport while in college (either at a Malaysian embassy in the US, or on a visit back home) and travel with both passports while you need the student visa in the expired passport. </p>
<p>Possible, but inconvenient. I can see why you’d want to get a new passport now instead of later. You could try quoting the following paragraph from the website of the US embassy in Malaysia: [FAQs</a> on Nonimmigrant Visas | Embassy of the United States](<a href=“http://malaysia.usembassy.gov/faq_niv.html]FAQs”>http://malaysia.usembassy.gov/faq_niv.html)</p>