J-1 Visa
Virginia & Maryland

The J-1 visa was created for those “exchange visitors” who want to come to the US and enter into an approved Exchange-Visitor Program for the sole purpose of gaining experience, studying or doing research in their respective fields.

The J-1 visa category is primarily used by foreign students, scholars, experts, medical interns and residents, international visitors and industrial and business trainees. The duration of an individual’s stay in the US is dependent on the “exchange visitor category” that the individual was admitted into the US.

An approved Exchange-Visitor Program may be a program that is sponsored by a government agency, educational institution, hospital, nonprofit association, business or industrial ogranization.

If you are seeking a J-1 visa to engage in an approved Exchange-Visitor Program, contact the law offices of SRIS Law Group for assistance. You can contact us online or call us via our toll free number. Our immigration attorneys have assisted many clients with obtaining J-1visas.

The US Immigration attorneys of SRIS, P.C. have offices in Virginia & Maryland.

In Virginia, our offices are located in Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Manassas, Richmond & Virginia Beach.

In Maryland, our offices are in Rockville & Baltimore.

Our immigration attorneys and staff at the Virginia & Maryland offices are fluent in a variety of languages, including English, Arabic, Tamil, Spanish, French, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Telugu.

USC code TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER I > § 1101. Definitions

(a)(15)(J) an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning who is a bona fide student, scholar, trainee, teacher, professor, research assistant, specialist, or leader in a field of specialized knowledge or skill, or other person of similar description, who is coming temporarily to the United States as a participant in a program designated by the Director of the United States Information Agency, for the purpose of teaching, instructing or lecturing, studying, observing, conducting research, consulting, demonstrating special skills, or receiving training and who, if he is coming to the United States to participate in a program under which he will receive graduate medical education or training, also meets the requirements of section 1182 (j) of this title, and the alien spouse and minor children of any such alien if accompanying him or following to join him;

USC code TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER I> §1182(j)

(j) Limitation on immigration of foreign medical graduates

(1) The additional requirements referred to in section 1101 (a)(15)(J) of this title for an alien who is coming to the United States under a program under which he will receive graduate medical education or training are as follows:

(A) A school of medicine or of one of the other health professions, which is accredited by a body or bodies approved for the purpose by the Secretary of Education, has agreed in writing to provide the graduate medical education or training under the program for which the alien is coming to the United States or to assume responsibility for arranging for the provision thereof by an appropriate public or nonprofit private institution or agency, except that, in the case of such an agreement by a school of medicine, any one or more of its affiliated hospitals which are to participate in the provision of the graduate medical education or training must join in the agreement.

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