Welcome Veterans, Service Members, Spouses & Dependents

The JMU VA School Certifying Officials assist with the GI Bill^® process and serve as liaisons between: the student and Veterans Affairs; Veterans Affairs and JMU; JMU and the student; and the State Approving Agency (SAA) in Virginia and JMU.

Regular Semester Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm. Please call or stop by 4:30pm for assistance.

We will be out of the office for the following dates:

• November 24th-28th: Thanksgiving break (JMU Closed)
• December 22nd-January 2nd: Winter break (JMU Closed)

Fall 2025 Semester Benefits 

• Incoming students for Fall 2025: follow the instructions and steps found on our brochure/website or in the email we sent you. See lefthand navigation (Education Benefits) or brochures below. 
  • Attention: you will need to pay your admissions deposit to secure your spot at JMU.
  • Keep in mind - if you are using Post 9/11 or VMSDEP, the tuition portion of the bill covered by your benefit will NOT be reflected on the fall semester bill when it is initially released. This is normal
    • Post 9/11: We start to report semester enrollments in early August and add the expected VA tuition/fee payment to student bills at that time. You still need to cover full room/board and any remaining % of tuition/fees if not 100% eligible for Post 9/11 upfront by the UBO deadline.
    • VMSDEP: Financial Aid adds the vmsdep tuition/fee waiver as "anticipated aid" and the waiver posts in sometime in late September. Full room/board must be covered upfront by UBO deadline.
• Current benefit users for Fall 2025: The Fall 2025 request forms were sent from auto_notification@jmu.edu to the student's dukes email account on 4/22/2025. If you need a new form after that date, please email veteran@jmu.edu with your student ID number.
  • Important: the form can only be sent to the student's dukes email account. It cannot be sent to the parent or a non-JMU email account and the student must be enrolled in at least 1 course to receive the form.  
  • If sending the form via email, it will only be accepted from the student's dukes email account.
• VMSDEP Users: You must request for the Fall 2025 semester in the VMSDEP portal in addition to submitting the required JMU Request Form. Instructions found on the VMSDEP website. The Fall 2025 term opens in the VMSDEP portal on 7/1/2025. The student must add the "Fall 2025" term to their VMSDEP portal by 12/12/2025 in order to use it for the Fall 2025 semester. We do not apply retroactively once a semester ends.