You have arrived looking for DD Form 2285. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Invitational Travel Order (ITO) for International Military Student (IMS). Full title: DD Form 2285, Invitational Travel Order for International Military Student, July 1995.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 4 pages and about 124 entries.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- 2. Country.
- 4. Issuing security assistance organziation, S A O. a. Name of organization.
- b. Mailing address.
- 5. Funding. Press space bar to mark X in first box if IMET fiscal year, second box if FMS case identifier, or third box if other (INL, etc.).
- a. IMET fiscal year (if applicable).
- b. F M S case identifier, if applicable.
- c. Other (specify).
- 6. International military student information. a. Name (surname in all caps, first name, middle name).
- b. Sex. X first box if male, second box if female.
- c. Country service rank.
- d. U S equivalent rank/pay grade.
- e. Country service.
- f. Country service number.
- g. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- h. Place of birth (city, province or district, and country).
- 7. Invitation. The Secretary of (U.S. military department):
- Proceed on or about (date - 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- From (debarkation point - home country):
- To (training installation):
- 8. Authorized training (list in sequence of attendance). No additional training to that specified in this order will be provided. a. (1) R C N, line 1.
- (2) WCN.
- (3) MASL IIN.
- (4) MASL description.
- (5) Military service course I D number.
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2285?
- DD Form 2285, Invitational Travel Order for International Military Student, July 1995
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?