Can I study abroad or attend a local public school when I buy a house in the United States?

If you buy a house in the United States, you can't study abroad, and you can't go to a local public school.

In principle, students in public schools in the United States do not check their identity when registering for school, but the school office will copy the application materials of students, including passports. American schools allow undocumented children, that is, illegal immigrants, to enter school, but they are not allowed to enter school with a B 1/B2 tourist visa. The school found that the passport is such a visa and can refuse admission. If the Immigration Bureau finds that you are studying in the United States with a tourist visa, it is obviously engaged in activities that are inconsistent with the purpose of the travel application, from warnings and fines to deportation and refusal to enter the country in the future. If you don't submit your identification, it means that you are an illegal immigrant by default.

In the United States, illegal immigrants can go to preschool to high school in public schools for free, but they can't go to college. Even if they hide their identities and go to college, they can't find jobs in America. Since they have worked so hard to send their children to school in the United States, no parents really want their children to live behind their illegal immigrants for several years. In addition, it should be noted that foreigners buying a house in the United States cannot solve the identity problem. The year before last, some lawmakers suggested that foreigners buy houses in the United States and give them temporary residency. Later, this motion failed. Now, with the recovery of the American real estate market, such a bill is even more impossible to pass. Therefore, it is absolutely a misunderstanding to think that children can go to school nearby as long as they buy a house in the United States.

The correct way to let children come to the United States to attend secondary schools legally should be to keep their legal status. There are two ways: first, parents have their own legal residence status in the United States. For example, parents come to the United States to study, be visiting scholars or immigrate, get corresponding visas, and have a fixed residence in the United States. Then children can naturally attend public schools in the United States with their parents. Many children of China expatriates, visiting scholars or China people who work in the United States with H 1B work visas have gone this way. Second, for most people, this opportunity may not be available, but if they have the money and want to send their children to secondary schools, they should find an American secondary school, usually a private secondary school, which is qualified to issue I-20 forms, and then go to embassies and consulates in China to apply for a study visa with the I-20 form. Of course, there is a price to pay. Generally, the annual tuition and living expenses of each student in private high schools in the United States are between 50,000 and 80,000 dollars. Even public high schools charge tuition fees for international students, and the charging standards are roughly the same as those of private schools.