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Posted on 07/31/2026 7:00:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain
The State Department on Thursday proposed changes that would expand and clarify the grounds for ceasing participation in the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program, while also updating how sponsors manage extensions and reinstatements of status.
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published in the Federal Register on July 30, focuses on regulations governing nonimmigrants who come to the United States for educational and cultural exchange programs.
These visitors hold J-1 visas, also called exchange visitor visas, while their spouses and children typically hold J-2 visas. The department monitors them through the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), a database overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The J-1 visa is a temporary nonimmigrant visa that allows foreign nationals to come to the United States to participate in approved educational, cultural, or professional exchange programs. Sponsor programs include au pairs, college students, and physicians undergoing graduate medical training.
Current rules stipulate that sponsors must terminate a visitor’s program if the person stops pursuing the authorized activities, cannot continue, breaks program or sponsor rules, or willfully drops required insurance. Unauthorized employment can also lead to termination.
The proposed rule attempts to make those conditions clearer. It would authorize the department to terminate a visitor’s program. It would also change the sections on program extensions and reinstatement to valid status. Outdated requirements would also be stricken from the regulation.
Definitions would cover “unauthorized employment” and “valid program status,” and a separate extension provision that has applied specifically to au pairs would be rescinded.
Visitors whose programs are ended must leave the United States without the usual 30-day grace period that follows normal program completion. Their SEVIS records are changed to terminated status, and dependents usually follow the principal’s status.
In mid-July, the government acted to replace open-ended “duration of status” admissions for J-1 and nonimmigrant student F-1 holders with fixed periods of stay, generally no longer than four years not including extensions, which will be effective in mid-September.
That change, already finalized by the Department of Homeland Security, requires more formal extension filings with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for those who need additional time.
“For nearly half a century, the outdated ‘duration of status’ system has compromised national security and created an environment ripe for immigration fraud,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on July 16. “For decades, foreign students have been admitted into the U.S. indefinitely, allowing thousands to abuse our immigration system by perpetually enrolling in courses to avoid having to leave the U.S.”
These reforms will apply to F, J, and I visa holders. The Trump administration has said the visas have been abused by foreign “forever students” who stayed in the United States by continuously enrolling in courses.
Under the new rule, nonimmigrant students on F-1 visas and exchange visitors on J-1 visas will be permitted in the United States only during their specific program. They will not be allowed to exceed four years.
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Doesn’t matter what country they enter as a student they disappear . They should automatically go on a Wanted List with a Bounty
All of these “guest worker” type programs are designed to get foreigners off of planes and pass through immigration. They are then here forever. There is no “total number”. They are not tracked. They are not given any unique identifiers. The government does not track when they leave nor enforce this. They are here to take an Americans job and eventually vote for democrats. Of the Millions of H1B visas issued, can you name me one that has returned back to India? I am waiting for your answer.
As for the H1b stuff ... do your own research. Seriously ... WTF is up with your hostile attitude?
Did Mr. Virrey leave in 2015? Prove it!
1) I don’t have to prove a damn thing to you. Lose the attitude.
2) Regardless, I did prove that they get at least one unique identifying number.
3) Do your own research.
4) Lose the attitude.
5) Unlike most folks around here, I recognize visa overstays as a major problem. Even said so in post number one.
5) LOSE THE ATTITUDE!
How many H1B visa holders left the country when there visas expired in 2020? 2023? Any year? It is not tracked.
So? What? What’s your point? Do you think the new rulemaking addressed in the article is useless? Do you want the State Department to continue being negligent in dealing with visa overstays?
Just because a random number is put on a piece of paper does not mean anything. Lose your attituded. What database did this number go into? Where is this database. Has anybody been deported because their number was in this database and they overstayed? It is all a huge scam.
Any person who gets off a plane with any type of visa, they become a defacto citizen of the USA. Because none of these rules are enforced. Some might return. Nobody really knows. It is not tracked or enforced. Because it is assumed that:
1) They save on payroll costs for the republicans
2) They will eventually vote for democrats
It is a win-win for all politicians. It is bad for everybody else.
I bet that Mr. Virrey is in the USA right now.
If you really wanted to know, you could do a Freedom of Information Act request based on the numbers shown on his Visa.
My point is nobody at DHS was looking at a computer screen on May 1, 2015 thinking “We should go track down Mr. Virrey and see if he is heading out of the country in the next few days.” The whole scam is predicated on the fact that this never happens.
Do you think the new rulemaking and procedures mentioned in the article will improve the situation?
No because if we did try to improve the situation a whole army of purple haired woman with nose rings would flood the streets and riot. And the news media would make sure to blow that completely out of context.
Right now I cant get a tech job because the Indian tech recruiting mafia wont even look at my resume. I lost my 20 year job to the H1B Indians in 2020. There are millions like me that have NO voice.
Being poor and underemployed will give you an attitude.
The millions of unemployed white American males will eventually wake up.
We will lose our country or it will blow up.
It doesn’t make any difference how many rules they break or ignore if the government can’t keep tabs on them and remove them as soon as they are either completed or dropped out of the program. Some stay for years after the fact because they can’t be found.
If they would treat them like parolled prisoners and have them check in and identified, they wouldn’t need more rules. Just use the ones in place.
Same old lib opertaion, restating rules by making or adding wasted additions with the same rules they should have used to begin with. The problem isn’t the rules, it’s finding and implementing the original rules.
wy69
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