Timeline and Placement Process
- Application due date for 2018-2019 awards: July 17, 2017
- Field-specific experts review applications to short-list candidates: August-September 2017
- National interviews of short-listed candidates in Delhi: Mid-October 2017
- USIEF notifies principal and alternate nominees that they are recommended: Late-October 2017
- USIEF forwards applications of recommended candidates to the U.S. for J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) approval and placement: December 2017
- USIEF notifies finalists: March-April 2018
- Pre-Departure Orientation: May-June 2018
- Program begins: August-September 2018