Flight Training Providers - Recordkeeping Candidates Training Records

Intelligence and Analysis (IA) Program
Management Division – Aviation Branch

Alien Flight Student Program
(AFSP)
Provider Application
Guide
Month 2019

Application for Training
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Applicants must provide the following using the AFSP online portal for each training event:
 Basic Information
• name, gender, height, weight, DOB, eye color, hair color
 Other Names
 alias type: birth, Americanized, maiden, geographic, variations
 Citizenship Types (current, dual, historical)
 Document Information (current & all previous)
• unexpired passport and visa, all airman certificate & type rating, permanent resident card,
border crossing card, employment authorization card, all airman certificates & type ratings,
US driver’s license
 Address Information (current, historical at least 5 years)
 Employment History (current)
 Dates and location for training

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Fingerprints required for training application approval

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Applicant must start training within 180 days from date request is accepted by provider

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Applicant must complete training within 365 days of date training request is approved

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Categories of Training
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Category 1: for applicant not eligible for expedited processing for flight training
in the operation of aircraft with MTOW of 12,500 pounds or more

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Category 2: for applicant eligible for expedited processing for flight training in
the operation of aircraft with MTOW of 12,500 pounds or more

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Category 3: for applicant applying for flight training in the operation of aircraft
with MTOW of 12,500 pounds or less

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Category 4: for applicant requesting for recurrent training
– Flight schools are required to submit similar training and identifying
information for applicant in Category 4, but are not required to submit the
applicant’s fingerprints.

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Provider Login Page

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Requesting AFSP Provider ID

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FSDO Request Confirmation

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Flight Training Provider
Activities
within AFSP

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Initial AFSP Sign-in

If you do not already have an
AFSP account, please send
request for access to:
APSP-Provider-Helpline@dhs.gov

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Provider: Home Page

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Provider: Training Requests

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Provider: Training Requests (cont.)

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Provider: Payments

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Provider: DOD Endorsements
This tab only appears for providers who have received DOD Endorsements. The majority
of providers will not have an Endorsements tab.

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Provider: Help

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Provider Actions: Validate TR
New provider with a TR just submitted to validate, click on the 1

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Provider Actions Needed
Missing Information:
• Contact Info
• Training Location

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Provider Actions Needed
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Upload photo at start of
training
Change TR Status as needed
Training dates ONLY
estimates

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Paperwork Reduction Act
Paper Reduction Act Statement
The public reporting burden to complete this information collection is estimated at 5 minutes per response, including the time for
reviewing instructions searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing
the collected information. TSA may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number and expiration date. The OMB control number assigned to this collection is
1652-0021, EXP. 03/31/2019. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information,
including suggestions for reducing this burden to TSA/TSNM, 601 S 12th Street Arlington, VA 20598-6019 : ATTN: PRA
(1652-0021).

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Privacy Act and Assertion of Data

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