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Ah, this is good to know. So it looks like I might not have to pay my own flight back to the states after all. I'm planning on remaining in TW for the summer (even though it'll be bloody hot) and return around mid August.

As I mentioned before, I'm pretty sure the only restriction is you are not able to use Fulbright funding to pay for your return ticket if you stay beyond the 10 (or really 11th) month limit. That, plus you will probably need to make your own arrangements for visas, but if it's just a few months a tourist visa should be easy to come by wherever you would want to go.

Got mine too. It's a lot to process! As far as I can tell, the limitations on what you do after the grant pertain mainly to your return flight. I'm not sure if the situation is different this year or with Taiwan, but a friend of mine did her Fulbright elsewhere in E. Asia a couple of years ago, and afterward traveled to other countries in the region to keep doing research for the rest of the summer. The only catch was she had to forfeit the ticket purchased with Fulbright funds and pay for her own plane ticket back from her final destination.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I did indeed email the rep the other day with a few other questions, and haven't heard anything back yet. I imagine they might be busy with finalizing the ETA business for Taiwan! Perhaps they want to just wait until everyone has heard the initial update before continuing to send out information. Anyway, I'll update everyone if I do hear anything back from the regional representative.

Have any of the Taiwan research ppl on here received add'l information about the terms and other stuff? It's kind of weird that it has taken so long, right? For others... does anyone have an idea of how long the gap tends to be between receiving your first email informing of your acceptance and receiving the more detailed paperwork? I thought the waiting game was over... now I'm starting to get anxious about how I'll be able to enroll at my host institution in time.

The Taiwan ETAs should be forthcoming, right? There are so many this year....

Me too! Congratulations!!!!!! Email dated exact same time as yours, but I actually didn't receive it until after I had already read the most recent posts in this thread... as expected, I got totally nervous, shaking, etc... then opened my email.... duaannngg... there it was. I guess I'll be seeing you in TW then taiwantroubadour? BTW, never mentioned how much I like your "duang" avatar

Congrats to everybody, and I'm also very glad to see that at least some notifications are going out. I have to admit though, every time I see taiwantroubadour post in this thread, my heart skips a beat, since we're applying to the same country... Part of my ever-more obsessive waiting game strategy has involved calculating the average number of days between the first round notifications and final acceptances... Taiwan is now a few days past the "average" of 80 days... how long are they going to make us wait...

The grad student reference form can be found on page 85 (!) of the "FY 2015 Application Instructions" document for the DDRA, which you can download from here: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html (under "Current Application") That document is very long and repetitive, I recommend not reading the whole thing. But the example forms are included in there.

I think I can answer this question--I will respond in your other thread.

Hi all. I've been reading this thread obsessively for a few weeks now, decided to finally register an account + add info to spreadsheet. Research applicant to Taiwan here. Good luck everybody... I think (hope?) we'll hear something this week.......