San Diego Immigration Lawyer: J-1 Final Rule
The Department of State published an interim final rule amending its regulations regarding Trainees and Interns for J-1 Visas . It eliminates the distinction between "non-specialty occupations" and "specialty occupations," establish a new internship program, and modifies the selection criteria for participation in a training program .
It amends the requirements to permit the use of telephone interviews to screen potential participants for eligibility, to remove the requirement that sponsors secure a Dun & Bradstreet report profiling companies with whom a participant will be placed and also amends this provision to provide clarification regarding the verification of Worker's Compensation coverage for participants and use of an Employer Identification Number to ascertain that a third-party host organization providing training is a viable entity, and to clarify that trainees and interns may repeat training and internship programs under certain conditions.



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