How soon can I get an expedited visa application from J 1 USA? How early can I go to the United States after I get the J 1 visa?

American J 1 visa is an exchange visiting scholar visa. The United States still welcomes people from other countries to visit and exchange in the United States, but only if the applicant has been accepted by the formal organizers, and the American educational institutions or project organizers will provide visa application documents for the applicant at an appropriate time. If the application time conflicts with your own itinerary, you can rush it.

How quickly the U.S. J 1 expedited visa application can be completed depends on the time when you face-to-face the visa. If the application is urgent, the J 1 visa will be endorsed 3-5 working days after the face-to-face signing.

If your visit plan is about to start within 60 days, and the ordinary visa reservation is full, and the applicant has no record of being refused a visa by the US Embassy or Consulate General in the last six months, you can apply to the embassy for an expedited appointment, or apply to a third-party agent for an expedited appointment for an interview time.

1. Urgent and necessary documents for the embassy:

1.I-20 original form or DS-20 19 form, indicating the start date of the research plan (within 60 days).

2. If necessary, SEVIS proof of payment is required.

Steps to apply quickly:

Step 1:

First arrange the general interview time, then write down the reasons for the emergency interview in English, log in to your personal file, and submit your application online by providing feedback. Please wait patiently for the reply from the embassy or consulate.

Step two:

If the embassy or consulate general approves the application, you will receive an email reminding you to arrange an emergency interview online. If the embassy or consulate general refuses to apply for an expedited interview, you will receive the corresponding email notification. At this time, if you still want an emergency interview, you can apply to a third-party agent to make an appointment for an emergency interview.

Second, apply to a third-party agent to make an appointment for an emergency interview.

You don't need a written application to apply for an appointment for an emergency interview with a third-party agent. You only need to provide the following information to express the customer service:

Confirmation numbers of 1 and 160

2. Identification number

Step 3 name

4. Passport number

5. Date of passport issuance

6. Passport expiration date

7. Contact phone number

8. Email address

9. Interview Embassy: Beijing/Guangzhou/Shanghai/Chengdu/Shenyang

10, where to get the passport after the visa comes out.

1 1, visa type

12, SEVIS number

13, exchange item number

Should J- 1 and J-2 visas be signed at the same time?

The simplest J-2 visa application is to bring a visa. The so-called visa means that when applying for a J/KLOC-0 visa, family members and children apply together.

What is a J-2 visa?

J-2 visa is a kind of visa issued by the American embassy to the spouse and children of visa recipients. Simply put, it is a visa specially designed for the families and children of American visa recipients.

1. Ordinary J- 1 and J-2 visa applications.

For example. A family of three, her husband is a visiting scholar going to Harvard University in the United States. Therefore, her husband applied for a U.S. J-/KLOC-0 visa, while her wife and children applied for a J-2 visa.

The ideal date for husband J- 1 visa is from June 1 day, 2065 to June 1 day, 2065, 438+07, one year. According to the departure time of my family, I will explain it in two situations:

The first situation: the family starts at the same time.

If the husband, lover and children go to the United States together, then there is no other choice, and the family can go to the visa together. Husband applies for J- 1, and his wife and children apply for J-2 respectively. The date of the family is exactly the same. This situation is the simplest and there will be no trouble.

The second case: the husband starts first, the lover is not sure about the departure time, and the visa is different.

In this case, there are two options:

(1) The family also has a visa (the same as "the family leaves at the same time" above). As long as the visa is successful, the lover can enter and leave the United States at any time of the year with a J-2 visa, and the husband will go first. Couples can choose to stay in the United States for a few months in summer vacation or winter vacation, and then return to China. There is no problem at all.

(2) The husband applies for a J- 1 visa first, and then helps his wife to apply for a J-2 visa after arriving in the United States, that is, J- 1 and J-2 apply at different times, with J- 1 in the front and J-2 in the back. This situation is more troublesome, and it is also a situation that Dashu strongly advises everyone to pay attention to. But as far as I know, many people choose this method without knowing it.

The above situation is the most common in reality. Obviously, it is most correct to apply for a visa for a family at the same time. This method is very applicable whether you go to the United States as a family or in tandem!

The advantages of applying at the same time are:

It can reduce a lot of repetitive work and save a lot of time.

My husband applies first, and then helps my lover apply for a J-2 visa when he arrives in the United States. How troublesome is this situation?

First of all, you need to help or guide your lover to fill out the DS 160 form again as in the past, but your memory of filling it out at that time has been blurred, so you need to review the strategy at that time.

Secondly, do you remember how you applied for the DS20 19 form and the invitation letter from an American school? Congratulations, you have to resubmit some materials in an American university to get your lover's DS20 19 form and the invitation letter from the school to your lover.

In this process, you need to re-prepare a bunch of materials such as your lover's proof of funds, which must meet the requirements of the school for J-2 applicants to issue DS20 19 forms.

Third, you played the role of an American school. You need to send your lover's DS20 19 form and the invitation documents of the school to your lover, and also send a bunch of information about your visa application in that year, such as your own DS20 19 form and proof of funds to your lover.

Finally, your family needs to go to the embassy visa by themselves, just as they were nervous, and their family has experienced this kind of nervous feeling once.

In any case, it is unwise for a family to apply for a visa in series. This is my situation.

When I applied for J- 1 visa, I only paid attention to the process and preparation materials of J- 1 visa application, but my wife just didn't go with me, so I didn't pay attention to the J-2 visa policy. So it's really complicated to go through the relevant procedures now.

Therefore, I want to warn all my friends who have not applied for a visa. Maybe you got an invitation letter from a foreign university, maybe you got your own DS20 19 form, and even you filled out the DS 160 form online. But as long as you haven't applied for a visa, I suggest you apply with your family as much as possible. In this way, although it is a bit complicated now, it can save a lot of trouble in the future.

Third, another method.

For those who don't want to apply for J- 1 and J-2 visas at the same time, there is another option in series, that is, B2 tourist visa. The longest stay of a tourist visa in the United States is 180 days, almost half a year. Therefore, many people choose B2 visa instead of J2 visa.

J 1 visa can go to the United States 30 days in advance. The U.S. Embassy stipulates that no matter when the visa is issued, J 1 visa (exchange visiting scholar) can only enter the United States within 30 days before the project start date indicated on the DS-20 19 form.

Spouses and/or children of exchange visiting scholars are not allowed to work in the United States on a J-2 visa unless they submit the I-765 form to USCIS and get approval. Only in this case can J-2 visa holders work.