Please submit your EVRs for the Spring semester or Winter Quarter using our updated process. Reminder: you are submitting through a fileshare link (you will receive a confirmation email or notice to correct any errors) and not via dropbox.

Please make sure to read all the way through the instructions here or watch this 5-min tutorial video to get a refresher on the process.

If you need to have your password reset for the ISTS Portal, please reach out directly to M-D November at mnovember@applyISTS.com. TheDream.US Staff is not able to reset it for you at this time.

Deadline to submit the EVR: Feb 28, 2023

NEW: How you will receive and access the finalized EVR:

Once an EVR has been processed, it will be placed in a file in the ISTS Portal where you will download it and open the file using your Report Key. Further details on accessing it will be provided to you when you receive the email alerting you that the wire has been processed.

There are only two weeks remaining for Dreamers to apply for this year’s National scholarship round. Please see our recent press releases:

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Reminder:

If you would like to collaborate with us on a local press release to reach eligible Dreamers in your region, please contact gaby.pacheco@thedream.us.

You can use this template to make it easy.

For: Career Services Liaisons, Scholar Advisors, and Primary Relationship Managers

Does your institution want $15,000 (per program year) to fund inclusive fellowships for your Scholars?! Attend February’s PCPH to learn about our new initiative and how your institution can participate in TheDream.US Experiential Fellowship Program!

To participate in this program, Partner Colleges must create an experiential fellowship program that is inclusive to undocumented students regardless of work authorization.* The goals of this program are to:

1. Provide TheDream.US Scholars with paid experiential fellowship opportunities that focus on educational and/or professional development of the Scholar
2. Incentivize Partner Colleges to develop and fund paid inclusive fellowships that are available to undocumented students regardless of work authorization
3. Develop a sustainable program that does not rely on funding from TheDream.US
4. Please review this Experiential Fellowship Program Concept Paper for more information.

*Partner Colleges who already have existing inclusive fellowship programs – or want to expand upon an existing fellowship program to make it inclusive, are also eligible to participate in this program.

Tues. February 28, 2023 

11 am PT/ 1 pm CT/ 2 pm ET 

Link to join (no need to register) 

This week, we held our first ITINs Open Doors Info Session for Scholars and Alumni who are not eligible for a SSN. Our Guest Speaker is UNLV Professor Francine Lipman – her expertise is in ITINs and tax law. Please watch and/or share the recording here.

More Resources to share:

1. We've created this webpage to house the materials that are being shared in the ITIN campaign.
2. We'll be hosting 2 more Info Sessions where Scholars can get information on ITINs and ask questions. See flyer for sharing here.



Please encourage Scholars and Alumni who do not have a SSN to check out these materials and attend the zoom sessions.

Last week, TheDream.US issued the following statement from Gaby Pacheco, Director of Advocacy, Communications, and Development, reacting to the introduction of the Dream Act in the U.S. Senate:

“Today’s bipartisan introduction of the Dream Act, by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), offers another opportunity for Congress to deliver on a popular priority two decades in the making. Of course, we understand the skepticism about another attempt to pass legislation for Dreamers. Despite overwhelming polling in support of such a legislative fix and the demonstrated successes of programs such as DACA that provide new opportunities for Dreamers, Congress has repeatedly failed to pass the Dream Act."

Read full statement here.