Originally Posted by petitefrancaise (Post 12302112)

ok. So we have more details here.

They are going through the J1 program.
The issue facing them is host family. It says that the host family may not be a relative but the question is what constitutes a relative. In this case, the student is son of her cousin, so it's pretty distant.

Anyone know about this and whether this would be considered a relative? There's also the issue of the host family being "American", they aren't.