Olivier Wagner

I've heard that one can only have one work DS-2019 in his life now.
Does that mean that a person who did a Council program 2 years ago
cannot do an internship after his studies as a J1 (while he would have
been eligible if he would have studied with a F1) ???

Thank you !!!

Sylvia Ottemoeller

"Olivier Wagner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > I've heard that one can only have one work DS-2019 in his life now.
    > Does that mean that a person who did a Council program 2 years ago
    > cannot do an internship after his studies as a J1 (while he would have
    > been eligible if he would have studied with a F1) ???
    > Thank you !!!

This seems to indicate that a person cannot do what you propose:
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/enforce/...03.htm.However, I
think it is a little unclear. Why does it refer to a single *consecutive*
training program? You might try to ask another J-1 trainee sponsor besides
Council, like AIPT, AISEC, or CDS.

Olivier Wagner

Thank you,
you're the best. May I ask you how you found that link ? (so that I
may find the info. by myself next time)

Thank you.


"Sylvia Ottemoeller" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > "Olivier Wagner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >
    > > I've heard that one can only have one work DS-2019 in his life now.
    > > Does that mean that a person who did a Council program 2 years ago
    > > cannot do an internship after his studies as a J1 (while he would have
    > > been eligible if he would have studied with a F1) ???
    > >
    > > Thank you !!!
    >
    > This seems to indicate that a person cannot do what you propose:
    > http://www.ice.gov/graphics/enforce/...03.htm.However, I
    > think it is a little unclear. Why does it refer to a single *consecutive*
    > training program? You might try to ask another J-1 trainee sponsor besides
    > Council, like AIPT, AISEC, or CDS.

Sylvia Ottemoeller

"Olivier Wagner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

    > Thank you,
    > you're the best. May I ask you how you found that link ? (so that I
    > may find the info. by myself next time)
    > Thank you.

    > "Sylvia Ottemoeller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...

    > > "Olivier Wagner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > > news:[email protected]...
    > >
    > > > I've heard that one can only have one work DS-2019 in his life now.
    > > > Does that mean that a person who did a Council program 2 years ago
    > > > cannot do an internship after his studies as a J1 (while he would have
    > > > been eligible if he would have studied with a F1) ???
    > > >
    > > > Thank you !!!
    > >
    > > This seems to indicate that a person cannot do what you propose:
    > >
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/enforce/...03.htm.However, I
    > > think it is a little unclear. Why does it refer to a single
*consecutive*
    > > training program? You might try to ask another J-1 trainee sponsor
besides
    > > Council, like AIPT, AISEC, or CDS.

I had the link saved in a "J-1 trainee" folder of Bookmarks, so just looked
it up this time.

First searched for it about 3 weeks ago in response to a comment on
alt.visa.us by Expat Wannabe which nudged my memory. I'm on a few
listservs, and save a lot of the posts. I read through a lot of titles to
find a particular post from October 2003, which was courtesy of an AILA
subscriber (AILA has a proprietary service called AILA Infonet). Then
googled the title "Second J-1 Training Programs Not Permitted" and found the
government site.

There are some attorneys who put many of the AILA notices (or summaries of
them) on their sites.