I’m an international student and I submitted my common app to all my schools indicating that I don’t know what type of visa I will need to study in the U.S. I think it’s F-1 but I’m not completely sure so I just chose “I do not know what visa I will hold”. Is that okay? Will I be considered as providing an incomplete information? I really don’t know and thought it will be better to say that I don’t know than to guess and get it wrong.
Do you have the internet?
“I don’t know” is a perfectly fine answer. Colleges will assume that you’ll need sponsorship for a student visa and will follow up with you accordingly should you choose to attend. (The Common App didn’t even ask about a foreign student’s intended visa status until 2016, and admissions offices were coping just fine.)
The question is more salient to foreign students who are already living in the US at the time of the application. They could be planning to attend college in the status they already hold (e.g. H-4) or switch to a student visa. Or maybe they are planning to change status to something else entirely in the interim - their family could have a pending green card application, for instance. An upcoming change to a student’s immigration status could be important information for scholarship eligibility or tuition purposes. That’s why the question is there.