Application Process

Step 1: Review Eligibility Requirement

All teachers must meet VIF's eligibility requirements to make sure that that VIF is a match for you.

Step 2: Complete the Online Registration Form

On the registration form, we'll ask you a few questions about your experience, your country of residency and the subjects you teach.

Step 3. Complete the Application Form

Based on the information that you provide in your registration form, you may be asked to complete our online application.

VIF receives many inquiries from teachers, but we only have a limited number of positions that we can offer each year. When we are ready to consider applications from teachers in your country and in your subject area, we will ask you to complete an application. Invitations to apply will be sent via e-mail. We strongly suggest that you complete the application as soon as possible.

Step 4: Complete Telephone Interview

If your application is accepted, we will invite you to participate in a telephone interview to discuss your application and evaluate compatibility with our program requirements. We will inform you of the outcome of your telephone interview in an email within one week.

Step 5: Submit Required Documents

After your successful telephone interview, VIF will then instruct you to prepare a series of documents to accompany your application. These documents, which include reference forms, official transcripts, a current criminal background check, and several other items, will help us further determine your eligibility for the program.

Providing a complete application package as soon as possible will improve the likelihood of obtaining a U.S. teaching position for the next school year. You will be asked to submit these documents at a personal interview.

Step 6: Complete In-Person Interview

VIF holds interviews in a variety of cities world-wide in order to meet with program applicants. This interview is an opportunity for you to meet with a VIF representative and share more information about why you would be a successful VIF participant. We will inform you of the outcome of your personal interview in an email.

Step 7: Notification of Program Eligibility

After a successful personal interview and submission of all your documents, VIF will review your complete application package to ensure that you are able to receive a U.S. teaching license and visa and to meet VIF requirements. If all criteria are met, VIF will begin looking for positions for you in our participating schools.

Step 8: Consider U.S. Teaching Positions

VIF will share your information with U.S. school districts that are interested in hiring international teachers. Your VIF International Admissions Specialist will notify you if a school is interested in hiring you or speaking with you by phone about a teaching position.

Step 9: Accept offer!

Some U.S. schools begin to extend offers to teachers as early as November, but the majority of schools tend to hire most of their new teachers from March to August. Despite the fact that most schools begin the academic year at the end of August, remember that some schools continue to fill positions as late as September, based on student enrollment and school budgets.