The Office of Immigration Services (OIS) is part of the Office of Legal Counsel. The office provides information about bringing international faculty, staff, and scholars to the University of Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Cameron University, Rogers State University, OU Medicine Inc., and OU Health Partners Inc.. The staff provides immigration services to academic and administrative departments in obtaining and maintaining the appropriate immigration status for the employment of international faculty, scholars, and staff. Our office serves all five campuses governed by the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents. In addition, OIS recently expanded its services to include student immigration services on the HSC campus. From here, you can find information for hiring departments and international scholars.
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Please be advised that the information contained on this website is not designed as legal advice and may be subject to change at any time in light of new or additional laws and procedures associated with immigration law. You are further advised that the information contained within this website is subject to legal interpretation by agencies outside of the University’s control.
The information is provided to you for informational purposes only. The Office of Immigration Services (OIS) services are intended to help the University of Oklahoma fulfill its research, instructional, and outreach mission.
While every reasonable effort is made to provide departments and employees with timely assistance for job-related immigration concerns, assistance cannot be provided for personal or family immigration issues and may be further limited by staff resources and institutional priorities.
In no event shall the University of Oklahoma, its affiliates, or content partners be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of or in any way connected with the use of this website.
Nothing on this website should be understood to prevent an employee from seeking personal advice or representation by an attorney. No attorney may represent the University of Oklahoma in any immigration matter without written permission from the Office of Legal Counsel.
As a condition of your use of this website, you warrant that you will not use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices.
Occasionally, and despite our best efforts, typographical errors may appear on our site. Your help in notifying us about them is appreciated. Please e-mail ois@ou.edu and inform us of them.
This website contains links to other websites operated by parties other than the University of Oklahoma and the Office of Immigration Services. These links are provided for your convenience only. We have no control over these websites and are not responsible for their content. Our inclusion of links to these sites does not imply any endorsement of the material or any association with them.
The University of Oklahoma is under no legal obligation to sponsor a foreign national for an employment based work visa and reserves the right to decline sponsorship at any time.
