So I live in the EU and don't have an SSN. EMI says on their website that only a US Citizen would get credit for the tests. Now I still tried to apply and got the following answer:


"Emergency Management Institute courses are generally available to U.S. citizen only. Attendees are expected to have full knowledge of and experience with, U.S. governmental and political systems and are based on U.S. specific legislation, regulations and systems. Thus, most EMI courses are not appropriate for foreign participants.



Due to the fact non-US citizens do not have a social security number but will be assigned a unique student identifier if approved for training, the NETC policy at this time for a Non-US Citizen to take Independent Study (IS) courses is as follows:



1) The non-US citizen must have a United States government organization as a sponsor (i.e., fire department, police department, state emergency organization).



2) The sponsoring organization must make a written request on their official organization letterhead, a sample of the request will be supplied upon email request to removed@dhs.gov."


Could anyone give me some advice on this one? I mean surely calling a random FD/PD/etc in the US would be ridiculous and they would most likely send me the heck away. Surely there has to be some way for a student to take those courses. Anyone with more info on this please?