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by psuter 4216 days ago
J-1 visas can come with a requirement to spend time away from the US after they expire. One of the motivations is to avoid keeping specialty workers away from their home country if their work is in demand. (How a {country,occupation} pair gets classified as in-demand is an entirely different question.)

http://www.yale.edu/oiss/immigration/common/j1scholars/home....
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grr 4216 days ago
That's not the actual motivation. This only applies to J-1 visa holders that are, in part, funded by their original country and that country requests that they return.

Those J-1 holders make an informed deal with their country, money in exchange for time. The US is just enforcing it.

Nothing to do with the sentiments being put forward by the previous post.

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