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- From: godfrey@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: Re: J-1 home residency requirement
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.191540.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
- References: <1993Jan23.163335.3181@allegra.att.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:15:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.163335.3181@allegra.att.com>, hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne) writes:
- > I would appreciate if people who have had experiences with the
- > J-1 two-year home residency requirement could get in touch with me
- > (either if you 'served your sentence' or 'got pardoned'). Of particular
- > interest to me are the restrictions imposed during the two-year term
- > if you have any intention of returning to the U.S. (in terms of where
- > you can live, etc.)
- >
- > Thanks in advance.
- >
- > Henning Schulzrinne
- > hgs@research.att.com
-
- I have had quite a bit of experience with this. Unless things have changed
- just recently (and I think they have not) the purpose of this requirement
- was originally (and still is) to ensure that people who come from developing
- countries to learn some technical or scientific skill are forced to go
- back again for at least two years at the end, before they are able to come
- back to the US again. If you are applying from Germany then in general you
- should not be caught by this requirement, but you may find that you have been.
- One reason for this is that you may be working (or intending to work) on a
- US-government funded project. If this is the case you can get the requirement
- waived by USIA or by immigration when you apply for a J1 extension, or at
- any other time while in the US. ANother reason, which happened to me, is that
- the immigration officer who processed your application or extension simply
- made a mistake, and the same applies - it can be put right on application for
- extension or any other time.
-
- USIA (in Wahington) are fairly knowledgable about this requirement and usually
- helpful if there is any problem about having it waived, unless you are
- from a developing country. The one thing you should not do (and this is
- importnt) is fight it out with a local immigration officer and lose, because
- once this has happened you will have the greatest difficulty in getting a
- decision reversed. As with all bureaucratic matters in the US, you can ONLY
- get a sensible and reproducible result by going to a very high level in
- the government agencies concerned - at lower levels decisions are frequently
- arbitrary and unreliable.
-
- regards Laurence
-
-