Work and Travel - Rules & Regulations
During Summer Work and Travel program you may not begin working in certain positions determinted by Department of State. List of prohibited placements below. More information about J1 visa programs you may find HERE.
PROHIBITED PLACEMENTS
- In positions that could bring notoriety or disrepute to the Exchange Visitor Program;
- In sales positions that require participants to purchase inventory that they must sell in order to support themselves;
- In domestic help positions in private homes (e.g., child care, elder care, gardener, chauffeur);
- As pedicab or rolling chair drivers or operators;
- As operators or drivers of vehicles or vessels for which drivers' licenses are required regardless of whether they carry passengers or not;
- In positions related to clinical care that involves patient contact;
- In any position in the adult entertainment industry (including, but not limited to jobs with escort services, adult book/video stores, and strip clubs);
- In positions requiring work hours that fall predominantly between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am;
- In positions declared hazardous to youth by the Secretary of Labor at Subpart E of 29 CFR part 570;
- In positions that require sustained physical contact with other people and/or adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Universal Blood and Body Fluid Precautions guidelines (e.g., body piercing, tattooing, massage, manicure);
- In positions that are substantially commission-based and thus do not guarantee that participants will be paid minimum wage in accordance with federal and state standards;
- In positions involved in gaming and gambling that include direct participation in wagering and/or betting;
- In positions in chemical pest control, warehousing, catalogue/online order distribution centers;
- In positions with traveling fairs or itinerant concessionaires;
- In jobs that do not allow participants to work alongside U.S. citizens and interact regularly with U.S. citizens and to experience U.S. culture during the workday portion of their Summer Work Travel programs;
- With employers that fill non-seasonal or non-temporary job openings with exchange visitors with staggered vacation schedules;
- In positions that require licensing;
- In positions for which there is another specific J visa category (e.g., Camp Counselor, Trainee, Intern);
- In positions with staffing agencies, unless the placements meet the following three criteria:
- Participants must be employees of and paid by the staffing agencies;
- Staffing agencies must provide full-time, primary, on-site supervision of the participants;
- Staffing agencies must effectively control the work sites, e.g., have hands-on management responsibility for the participants;
- After November 1, 2012, in positions in the North American Industry Classification System's (NAICS) Goods-Producing Industries occupational categories industry sectors 11, 21, 23, 31-33 numbers (set forth at http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag_index_naics.htm).
Work & Travel USA program reqiurements:
- Be between 18 and 30 years old.
- Possess sufficient English language skills to successfully complete the program.
- Be registered as a full-time student at an accredited university or other state-recognized institution of post-secondary education. The degree/diploma course on which you are registered must be at least 2 years in duration. Students on post-graduate courses which are less than two years can also be accepted
- According to The Departament of State students are allowed to participate in the program only during their summer break.
- Have a passport valid for at least 6 months beyond your program length.
- Have student legitimation.
- You must be responsible person, open-minded, ready for hard work and new challanges.
- Students on their last semester have to remember that diploma exam has to take place after meeting in the Embassy.
- Important dates:
- You can work form 25th of May until 25th of September.
- You have to come back to the country for the official begining of your semester (until 1st of October).
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Dates on you DS 2019 form are the dates you are expected to work. Work after your DS end date is illegal.
If you have any doubts or questions about any of the rules, please contact us at: [email protected]
If you have any questions please contact us:
ul. Grzybowska 2 lok. 15
00-131 Warszawa
email: [email protected]
tel. 22 331 00 50 wew. 505
Biuro czynne od poniedziałku do piątku w godzinach: 11.00 - 19.00
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