Calling
home can be expensive, and unless you want to get $25 in coins, you
will probably want to get a phone card. Besides, you'd look silly
with 100 coins in your pocket.
Before you have permanent housing with a telephone (and often even then), you can save money on calls to your home country by using a pre-paid phone card. The iStudentCity Telecom Center can help you get a phone card.
One of the most important reasons for buying a pre-paid phone card before you leave for the United States is so you can call home when you arrive safely in the United States. Calling from a public telephone using coins or a credit card or calling from a hotel can be very expensive.
SEVIS is a government, computerized system that maintains and manages data about foreign students and exchange visitors during their stay in the United States. More info >>