com claims that J-1 visas are used by educational and governmental institutions to import foreign workers. Is it true?
No, this statement is very misleading. The J-1 status actually is an exchange visitor status. J-1s come to the US with the express intent of learning, not working – although some exchange programs allow or expect the J-1 non-immigrant to work as part of the experience. What is more, many J-1 non-immigrants are actually required to return to their home countries in order to transfer their US experience back. Thus, they not only don’t take an American’s job, they actually transfer knowledge. J-1 actually is used for a variety of purposes ranging from high school exchange students to summer camp counselors giving American children a glimpse into a foreign culture to au-pair exchange students to exchange scientists essential for international scientific cooperation and dissemination of scientific knowledge throughout the world As such, the scientific use of J-1 visas is not primarily for work, but rather essential tools of international scientific cooperation and to disseminate US knowledg
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