Professor/Researcher/Staff

Before making arrangements with your foreign professor/researcher/staff, please contact Human Resources.

The Payroll Office will assist you with the following:

1. We will determine what visa type allows for payments for services rendered.
2. We will determine if the person is a resident alien or nonresident alien, according to the IRS tax definition. This will be achieved by having the person fill out the Foreign National Information Form.

In order for Payroll to make a determination, they will need to make an appointment with  the Payroll Office. It will request all or some of the following documents:

• Passport and visa
• I-20
• Most recent I-94 from this website: US Customs and Border Protection - I-94 Website
• I-94 Travel history (same website as above)
• I-797
• DS-2019
• Social Security Number or receipt of application

This will assure that you have the all the information needed to process a payment for an international visitor, please use the following check lists.

• Payment for Services or Honorarium

Please be sure to check out the visa types to see whether or not the visa permits payment for services rendered.