{"id":2187,"date":"2021-12-22T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/?page_id=2187"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:47:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:47:40","slug":"two-year-home-residency-requirement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/two-year-home-residency-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year Home Residency Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some J-1 visa holders are subject to the two-year home country residency requirement. Your DS-2019 or your J-1 visa will indicate whether or not the two-year home residency rule applies to you. This information is also explained on the reverse side of the DS-2019 form.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions for the two-year requirement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The student is in a field identified by their home government as being in short supply and the field is included on the U.S. government&#8217;s \u201cExchange Visitor&#8217;s Skills List.<\/li>\n<li>The student receives any funding (regardless of amount) from their home government or they are awarded a U.S. government grant or fellowship specifically designed for exchange.<\/li>\n<li>The student is being sponsored by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A J-1 student can fulfill the two-year home requirement by returning to their home country (or country of residence) at the end of the J-1 program and living there for an aggregate of two years.<\/p>\n<p>Note that under the two-year home residency rule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J-1 students are not eligible to change their immigration status to another nonimmigrant visa within the U.S.(except A, G, or U).<\/li>\n<li>J-1 students are not eligible for an immigrant visa or adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident.<\/li>\n<li>J-1 students are not eligible for work visas such as the H, L, or K.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"prpl-drawer\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">Waiving the two-year home country requirement<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\">\n<p>J-1 students can submit an online petition for a waiver through the Department of State&#8217;s website. If you need more information, please see: <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/us-visas\/study\/exchange\/waiver-of-the-exchange-visitor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Travel.State.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reasons for a waiver:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Statement from the exchange visitor&#8217;s home country that it has no objection to the waiver<\/li>\n<li>Fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion<\/li>\n<li>Request for waiver made by an interested U.S. government agency<\/li>\n<li>Expressed interest in a state agency (only for alien physicians)<\/li>\n<li>Exceptional hardship to the U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse or child of the exchange visitor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some J-1 visa holders are subject to the two-year home country residency requirement. Your DS-2019 or your J-1 visa will indicate whether or not the two-year home residency rule applies to you. This information is also explained on the reverse side of the DS-2019 form. Conditions for the two-year requirement: The student is in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":1261,"parent":0,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2187","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2187\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}