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Resources for Current Host Families

Thank you for being a host family to a World Link international exchange student(s). By inviting a student(s) to live in your home and become a member of your family, you have become an integral part of the student’s life journey as a global citizen that begins here in the United States.

Since World Link students are solely sponsored through public funding, this can add different rules and regulations that other privately funded exchange programs may not have in situations regarding financial, medical, travel, and academic matters. We have created this webpage to help you understand how to solve these situations that may arise as well as a location to get the forms you may need for these occurrences throughout your new family member’s exchange year.

Also on this page is information and resources to those host families that have taken the step to be a “citizen diplomat” and have agreed to host a student not only from another culture but a different religious faith. We hope this will provide you with answers to some of the questions that you may have.

If you have further questions or concerns, please contact your local coordinator. 

Financial & Medical

Medical Insurance for Exchange Students

ASPE Benefits Guide
Accident/Illness Medical Claim Form

How to Submit Reimbursements

Student Allowance Reimbursement Form

Student Travel Instructions and Forms

Student Travel Form Instructions
Student Travel Request Form
School Absence Form

Hosting a Muslim Student

World Link would like to give a special thanks to the Civilizations Exchange and Cooperation Foundation (CECF) in Baltimore, Maryland, for helping to prepare this information.

Below are short video clips of Imam Mohamad Bashar Arafat, Director of CECF, answering the most commonly asked questions about hosting a Muslim student.

Dietary Issues

Pets in the Home

Religious Services

Daily Prayers

U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State
FLEX Program
YES Program

​World Link is an international student exchange and development organization with programs sponsored by public support.​

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