LewerMark Strengthens Mental Health Offerings with Togetherall Partnership
Overland Park, KS (January 24, 2022) —LewerMark, an innovative student health insurance provider, welcomes Togetherall to the LewerMark student program. The Togetherall platform will augment LewerMark’s ability to support client schools, colleges, and universities with an additional layer of mental
Steps to Help Students Successfully Navigate the OPT Gap
This article is an update to a previously published blog post titled “For Advisors: OPT and Navigating the Student Transition.” Read the original post here. Processing issues surrounding Optional Practical Training (OPT) persist in the wake of COVID-19 and the
International Students’ Mental Health: How we can help
Mental Health Awareness Month is coming to a close. As we wrap up the month, we here at LewerMark want to make sure our students and schools know that we’re here to support them. We hope this blog proves to
How to Identify International Students Scams: Part 3 – Protection
This blog is the final post in our three-part series about scams targeting international students who, like everyone else, can be a victim of identity theft, fraud, or another type of loss. It is the uncertainty of being in a
How to Identify International Student Scams: Part 2
In Part 1 of our series, we identified three scams, including fake calls/email scams, the “Illegal Chinese Passport Scheme,” and census scams. We also described the “red flags”—things you can look for to help identify a scam. In this post, we
How to Identify International Student Scams: Part 1
Last year, the Federal Trade Commission received more than 3.2 million reports regarding scams, and the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported $3.5 billion in victim losses. Unfortunately, anyone can be the target for a scammer, including international students. To increase
Standing Against Injustice
At LewerMark Student Insurance we proudly protect International and American students during their academic careers. Our students come from countries all across our world, representing countless ethnicities and cultural backgrounds, and, most importantly, possessing rich talents and diverse perspectives. We
The Pros and Cons of Admission Deferral
As universities continue to speculate on what the fall 2020 semester will look like, international students must navigate how to best balance their desire to start a college career this fall versus the regulatory, infrastructure, and travel challenges they face.
Four Reasons to Choose LewerMark for the Upcoming School Year
When the New Year rang in five months ago, few people, if anyone, expected COVID-19 to affect us so profoundly. But now, every week we learn something new as we try and plan for what the “new normal” will look
For Advisors: OPT and Navigating the Student Transition
Optional Practical Training (OPT) has seen a lot of news coverage recently. Just in the last few months, form I-765 was lengthened from 2 to 7 pages, students reported waiting up to 5 months to receive their work authorization, and