Arrival to Camp

Your counselors will follow the travel instructions you wrote in your camp profile. If you will be sending someone to meet them at their arrival airport, we suggest that the staff member meeting them is easily identifiable. Provide the arriving counselors with as much information as possible about the person picking them up – and have them wear a camp shirt or have a sign welcoming them to camp! Remember, these are young people traveling across the globe alone – they need to be certain that they are connecting with the right person on arrival so they feel safe. If groups of staff will be arriving at similar times, or waiting in a designated pick up area, it is good practice to connect them with each other prior to travel so that they know they are not there alone. 

The first few days at camp are critical for your international counselors. Please be sure to allow them the chance to connect with their families during times that make sense for the time zone in their home country. This will be the first time that many of them travel abroad, and they will want to be able to reassure their families that all is well and that they may have less access to their devices over the coming weeks. 

SEVIS Activation

Your counselors are responsible for informing InterExchange of their arrival to camp. Please remind them to log in to their InterExchange account to complete their arrival check in as soon as they get to camp! There are three simple steps, but they will need the camp’s physical address and phone number in order to complete this. Once they have completed all three steps, InterExchange will activate them in SEVIS as soon as possible.