Student and Exchange Visitor Program
Student and Exchange Visitor Program
Date: Friday, February 05, 2010 10:40 PM
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You ve heard of exchange students, right? Ever wonder how that got started?
The purpose of the Program is to provide foreign nationals with
opportunities to participate in educational and cultural
programs in the United States and return home to share their
experiences, and to encourage Americans to participate in
educational and cultural programs in other countries. Exchange
visitors enter the United States on a J visa.
... Fulbright-Hays Act, 1961, Title 22: Foreign Relations
Fulbright s 1961 legislation seemed innocent enough, although the same thing
could be said of most legislation when it s being sold to the public. The idea
for the Fulbright-Hays bill goes back to 1940 when Nelson Rockefeller came up
with a concept he called an "exchange of persons program." Fifty years later
the program morphed into just another cheap labor subsidy for big business:
"Publix Gets Publicity For Hiring Foreign Students".
[all links at end of commentary]
Employers such as Publix can hire temporary workers by use of an immigration
program called the "Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)". It allows
foreign students to enter the United States by granting them J-1 nonimmigrant
visas. Once they obtain J-1 status they are eligible to be authorized to work.
There are many categories of foreign nationals who can qualify for J-1
nonimmigrant visas. Post-secondary students at colleges or universities with
J-1 visas can get work authorization to be employed at almost any kind of off-
campus job if they claim that they are having an economic hardship
(Source: 22 C.F.R. ' 62.23 (g) (1) (iii)). Of course economic hardship
probably describes about 99% of the student population, so it s not difficult
for them to get permission to work off-campus. They also have the option of
finding jobs on-campus, which unfortunately puts them in direct competition
with American kids who desperately need work-study programs.
It s easy to get J-1, F-1, and M-1 visas confused with each other because many
of the regulations for them are identical. Hopefully after reading this
paragraph you will no longer be confused (LOL!). The J-1 is designated as a
cultural exchange; the F-1 visa is for academic studies; and the M-1 is used
for vocational training. The major difference between the F-1 and
J-1 is the source of funding to pay for tuition. Both F-1 and M-1 can qualify
for the Optional Practical Training Program (OPT) while J-1 is excluded from
that option. There are a few constraints on the use of OPT, most notably the
job must be an internship in the student s field of study of Science,
Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM). All the visas including OPT have no
yearly cap, so they are unlimited in numbers.
Students on F-1 and M-1 can get authorization for the same types of jobs that
J-1s can get if they show economic necessity and for some reason they don t
get an OPT.
The J-1 visa can be used by students who participate in degree and non-degree
programs. That distinction might seem minor but it can be used as gaping legal
loophole to broaden the definition of who can get a visa and who can hold jobs
in the U.S. Too see just how wide that loophole can be, take a look at the
list of SEVP Approved Schools as of February 4, 2010. The document has 185
pages of entries in very small print. The file is in PDF format so it s almost
as easy to search as a database. Here are a few samples I picked somewhat by
random:
* Crestwell School, Fort Myers, FL
* American Islamic College, Chicago, IL
* American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
* American Lutheran Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, MN
* Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Schools Chicago, IL
* Finger Lakes School of Massage, Ithaca, NY
* Educating Hands School of Massage, Miami, FL
* Air Venture Flying Club Olive Branch, MS
* Flight Control Academy, Tucson, AZ
* Evergreen Beauty and Barber College. Everett, WA
* Barber School Annandale, VA
I picked the first one in order to find one close to the Publix stores in Fort
Meyers, FL. because that s one of the locations known to hire J-1 students. Of
course I have no idea if a foreign student from that school works at Publix,
but the possibility is there.
Notice the next four -- the schools are Islamic, Jewish, Luthern, and
Catholic. Doesn t it seem like a rather explosive mix of foreign students to
invite into this country?
Coincidentally I recently talked to a friend who mentioned that he caught a
cab driven by a Nigerian. The cabbie said he was a student at a local barber
school. It wasn t too difficult to find barber and beauty schools on the list,
so the story is very plausible.
I also happened to find some schools of massage. (Hmmmm! Hmmmmm! Hmmm!) Of
course I m sure most of the massage instruction is strictly therapeutic.
I selected a few flight schools from the list, which seem to be plentiful.
Not to worry though because surely the DHS has checked all of these schools
out, especially now that Janet Napolitano is running things. Still, it seems
odd that even after 9/11 we are still training foreign "students" to fly
airplanes.
The potential for terrorists to use SEVP schools as fronts is very real as
these two excerpts from a special report by the DOJ will demonstrate:
The Immigration and Naturalization Service s Contacts With Two September
11 Terrorists: A Review of the INS s Admissions of Mohamed Atta and Marwan
Alshehhi, its Processing of their Change of Status Applications, and its
Efforts to Track Foreign Students in the United States. May 20, 2002, Office
of the Inspector General.
Inadequacies in the INS s process for approving schools, 2002
Although federal regulations require that schools be certified before they
can accept foreign students, the INS s review of schools consists primarily of
a review of paperwork submitted by the school. We also found that INS often
did not inquire further even when the paperwork raised obvious issues about
the school s ability to meet the requirements for certification.
The largess of the business of contracting foreign students would require a
book to comprehensively cover. The following two examples are used to
illustrate the types of jobs that the bodyshops have their hooks on:
The Interlatina web site lists employee fliers to recruit J-1 students.
They are passed around in South American countries. In the spirit of making
Vdare more bilingual-friendly, I won t translate the text, but the meaning is
easy to understand: "Listado de empleadores Work and Travel":
Florida:
Publix Supermarkets Orlando, Naples y Miami (8 vacantes), Publix
Supermarket Naples & Fort Myers (5 vacantes), Stillwater appartments Miami
(males only) (3 vacantes), Wendy`s Pensacola, Florida (8 vacantes), Pedi Cab
Key West (21 or over) (10 vacantes), Golden Hotel (14 vacantes, only
female)
Colorado:
Dollar Rent a Car, CO (21 or over) 3 vacantes, Sales, Secret CO, Ski
resorts, Ober 5 vacantes
Connecticut: Woodbury Ski Area 3 vacantes
Hoteles:
Hilton Baton Rouge, Econo Lodge NY, Boomtown Hotel & Casino 2 vacantes
Fast Food:
Mc Donalds Lafayette, SONIC Lafayette 5 vacantes, Subway, WI 3 vacantes
Harrisburg, PA 20 vacantes
Otros destinos y empleadores:
USA Hostels San Diego 2 vacantes, Supermarket, NC 4 vacantes, Shell Stores
5 vacantes, Sales Ariel Las Vegas 5 vacantes, Casa Ole Resto, LA 5 vacantes,
Cedar B, Lodge UT 3 vacantes
For the second example we have a Job Fair in Paraguay:
One hundred and eighty university students and their parents in Asuncisn,
Paraguay, recently attended an information session about YMCA program
opportunities in the U.S., presented by John Hedbavny of the International
YMCA.
The presentation preceded a two-day job fair attended by Jacie Gdoviack,
Director of International Programs for the YMCA of the Rockies (CO), and
Vladimir, representing Publix, "the fastest growing supermarket chain in the
U.S." Both were kept busy Interviewing for Winter Work & Travel positions for
both companies, and for Trainee & Intern positions at the Rockies Snow
Mountain Ranch and Estes Park sites.
Hedbavny interviewed those interested in being U.S. summer camp counselors
through ICCP. Some forty-five students were hired by Publix and seventeen by
the Y of the Rockies.
The job fair was organized by Alexis Alcaraz, our recruiter in Paraguay,
Uruguay and Argentina, and former International Y Trainee.
Alcaraz and Hedbavny also visited the U.S. Embassy in Asuncisn to meet with
the Consul and further strengthen the International Y s J-1 visa programs.
They then flew to Montevideo, Uruguay, to promote the J-1 programs in that
country, visit the ACJ (YMCA), and meet with officials at the U.S. embassy.
NOTE: J-1 VISA HOLDERS DON T HAVE TO BE STUDENTS AT U.S. SCHOOLS
By now readers may get the false impression that J-1 visa holders must attend
a U.S. school in order to find jobs. That s because the term "student" implies
that they are attending a school in the United States.
That s not always the case however because "student" can be used as a global
term for a person who attends a school located anywhere in the world. A
program under the SEVP umbrella called "Summer Work/Travel (SWT)"
allows foreigners who are attending schools in other countries to work in the
U.S. for up to four months, which coincides with the amount of time students
in other nations get for summer vacations.
All that is required for a foreign national to qualify for SWT is to show up
at a U.S. consulate, fill out a few forms, and pay $35 for a J-1 visa.
The odds of qualifying are very good for foreign applicants because the
average interview is just 3 to 5 minutes, which is hardly enough time to
thouroughly check backgrounds.
Evidence in the article by Amy Bennett Williams in the Fort Myers News
Press: "Publix hires foreign workers" [January 19, 2010] suggests that Publix
uses J-1 students on SWT. These two tidbits of information in two different
parts of the article provide the evidence:
Q:Are they all university students?
A: Yes, they are all college students. They are on their summer break from
their university.
Although numbers aren t broken down by county, there are 7,756 J1 visa-
holders in Florida, said U.S. State Department spokeswoman Darlene Kirk. The
department calls it an "Exchange Visitor Program," allowing foreign college
students to "become directly involved in the daily life of the people of the
United States through travel and temporary work." Publix doesn t reciprocate
in the exchange.
The fact that Publix doesn t reciprocate is the real tip off. SEVP is called
an exchange program because the J visa assumes a situation where foreign
students come to the U.S. while the U.S. sends similar numbers of our own
students to their home country. In many cases there is no exchange
-- it s more like a one way street where most of the students flow into the
U.S. and few go out. Perhaps countries like Paraguay aren t very interested in
allowing Americans to work in their grocery stores, or another explanation
would be that Publix employees prefer to stay in Miami.
Publix and other employers can get away with these one sided immigration deals
because there is nobody to mind-the-store. This statement on a Florida State
University web page says it all:
The J program does expect reciprocal exchange to occur. Although there is
no organized program of exactly equal exchange with the countries represented
on our campus under the J program, there are various exchange opportunities
for students and faculty to travel abroad.
Keep in mind that J-1 visa holders can obtain J-2 visas for spouses, parents,
and unmarried children under 21 years of age. J-2 visa holders cannot get work
authorization, but they are entitled to most government services offered to
citizens. If the married couple or one of their daughters births a child while
they are in the U.S. that child becomes a jackpot baby.
If everything described so far wasn t bad enough, there are other problems
with the J-1 visa program -- like for instance it is rife with fraud.
Typically the crimes involve setting up phony schools in order to sell
fraudulent student visas to foreigners who are willing to pay. Most of them
usually overstay their visa and become out-of-status illegal aliens.
Sometimes unwitting foreigners aren t aware that the visa they pay for are
fraudulent, and that the school is a facade, so they get scammed. A recent
case in California deserves mention because it is such an elaborate
scam:
University accused of being front for visa scam,
By Jon Cassidy
The Orange County Register December 24, 2009
The owner and operator of California Union University -- a purported
university in Fullerton whose Web page is literally just one page -- is due in
court today to face federal charges that his school is actually a front for a
visa fraud scheme.
Samuel Chai Cho Oh, 65, surrendered to Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agents Tuesday morning, after a 10-month investigation into the school, which
purported to offer courses in four areas: Biblical studies, English as a
second language, Oriental medicine, and martial arts.
So, we have large numbers of foreign students on J-1 Visas (statistics) that
work in the U.S. They pose both a national security threat and they are direct
competition for jobs sought by high school and college students, and Americans
who would rather work than live on welfare. The student exchange program isn t
just a U.S. problem either (go to Visitorgate), it s a global phenomenon. If I
was on one of President Obama s job creation panels, one the things I would
suggest would be to stop the J-1 madness.
LINKS:
Fulbright-Hays Act, 1961, Title 22: Foreign Relations
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=22:1.0.1.7.37&idno=22
Publix Gets Publicity For Hiring Foreign Students
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/02/02/publix-gets-publicity-for-hiring-foreign-students/
Students and Exchange Visitors
http://www.ice.gov/sevis/students/index.htm
SEVP Approved Schools
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/ApprovedSchools.pdf
Student, Post-Secondary (College and University)
http://exchanges.state.gov/jexchanges/programs/ucstudent.html
Exchange Visitor (J) Visas
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1267.html#
Statistics: Student and Exchange Visitor Information System General Summary
Quarterly Review For the quarter ending December 31, 2009
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/quarterly_report_dec09.pdf
"Publix hires foreign workers" [January 19, 2010] http://www.news-press.com/article/20100119/NEWS01/100118063/Publix-hires-for
eign-workers
http://ic.fsu.edu/j1scholars/j1scholarinfo.cfm
Florida State University: J1 Exchange Visitor Program General Information
Definition of Jackpot Baby
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jackpot+baby
Picture of Sign for California Union University
http://www.californiaunionuniversity.com/kr/images/main.png
The Racket of the Exchange Visitor Program
http://www.visitorgate.com/
WEB PAGES COPIED BELOW:
http://exchanges.state.gov/ivlp/history.html
History of Exchange Program
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1267.html#
Exchange Visitor (J) Visas
http://exchanges.state.gov/jexchanges/programs/ucstudent.html
Student, Post-Secondary (College and University)
http://www.nafsa.org/_/file/_/amresource/22cfr62.htm
22 C.F.R. Part 62 - Exchange Visitors
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/114926
Thanks to feds, search for internships tougher, By Rob Sanchez, April 27,
2008, Commentary
http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/0205/chapter6.htm
May 20, 2002, Office of the Inspector General, CHAPTER SIX, THE INS'S
FOREIGN STUDENT PROGRAM
http://www.interlatina.org/shop/otraspaginas.asp?paginanp=260&t=VACANTES-WORK-AND-TRAVEL-2009.htm
Listado de empleadores Work and Travel 2009 2010
http://www.internationalymca.org/ICCP/NewsLetters/INT_Y_NEWS_Fall_09.pdf
Job Fair in Paraguay
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-225585-officials-immigration.html
University accused of being front for visa scam
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http://exchanges.state.gov/ivlp/history.html
History
1940 -- Nelson Rockefeller was named the Coordinator of Commercial and
Cultural Affairs for the American Republics. He initiated the exchange of
persons program with Latin America, inviting 130 Latin American journalists
to the United States.
February, 1942 -- A network of fourteen private shortwave transmitters
began broadcasting the newly created Voice of America.
June, 1942 -- The Office of War Information (OWI) was established to
consolidate scattered agencies of domestic and foreign information.
1946 -- OWI was terminated by President Truman, and a small remnant was
placed within the State Department. The wartime total of 11,000 personnel
shrank to 3,000 including the Voice of America. Within the State
Department, the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs
(OIC) in 1946 had a network of 76 branches the world over. Wireless files
carried daily news and feature stories from Washington. Sixty-seven
information centers and libraries stocked books, displayed exhibits and
showed films. The Voice of America broadcasted to the world for a total of
36 hours in 24 languages.
1947 -- OIC was renamed the Office of International Information and
Educational Exchange.
1948 -- Representative Karl E. Mundt and Senator H. Alexander Smith
marshaled a bill through Congress. Public Law 402, 80th Congress, commonly
called the Smith-Mundt Act, established a statutory information agency for
the first time in a period of peace with a mission to "promote a better
understanding of the United States in other countries, and to increase
mutual understanding" between Americans and foreigners. The Smith-Mundt Act
gave full recognition to the importance of educational and cultural
exchanges sponsored by the government. In recognition of the need to build
up a corps of well-informed intellectuals and opinion leaders in the
political and social infrastructure, the International Visitor Program was
started.
1952 -- The program was consolidated into the exchange of persons program
of the State Department.
1953 -- President Eisenhower submitted Reorganization Plan Number 8 to
Congress which established the United States Information Agency (USIA) to
consolidate information functions administered by the State Department and
other agencies. The Voice of America was joined to USIA but the educational
and cultural exchanges remained with the State Department.
1959 -- The exchange function was separated from the Bureau of Public
Affairs and was assigned to a newly created Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Relations (CU).
1961 -- Fulbright-Hays Act is passed and reaffirms the objective of
increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and
the people of other nations.
1978 -- USIA is renamed the United States International Communication
Agency (USICA) with responsibility for the public diplomacy of the U.S. It
combined the information mission with the educational and cultural
exchanges through absorbing the Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Relations from the State Department.
1982 -- The Reagan Administration changed the name back to the United
States Information Agency.
1999 -- USIA is moved into the U.S. Department of State. The Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs maintains its authority under the
Fulbright-Hays Act. The International Visitor Program continues under the
Bureau.
2004 - The International Visitor Program's name changed to The
International Visitor Leadership Program. Over 4500 visitors participated
in the International Visitor Leadership Program from October 2003 --
September 2004.
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http://www.nafsa.org/_/file/_/amresource/22cfr62.htm
22 C.F.R. Part 62 - Exchange Visitors
(2) If you determine that the violation of the regulations is a substantive
one, and that the exchange visitor has failed to maintain valid program
status for more than 120 days, then you must apply to us for reinstatement
of the exchange visitor to valid program status. Your application must
include:
(i) Copies of all the exchange visitor's Forms DS-2019 issued to date;
(ii) A new, completed Form DS-2019, showing in Block 3 the date for which
reinstatement is sought, i.e., the new program end date;
(iii) A copy of the receipt showing that the Pub. L. 104-208 fee has been
paid; and,
(iv) A written statement (together with documentary evidence supporting
such statement):
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http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/114926
or
http://www.capsweb.org/content.php?id=334&menu_id=8&menu_item_id=66
April 27, 2008
Thanks to feds, search for internships tougher
By Rob Sanchez
Commentary
It's that time of year when college students are on the hunt for those all
important internships and jobs. Thanks to Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff, their job search just got a whole lot tougher.
Effective as of April 8, a new regulation to extend the Optional Practical
Training program was initiated by Chertoff, who was acting at the behest of
a group of senators calling themselves the Republican High Tech Task Force.
This bureaucratic fiat was pulled off without a vote or public debate, so
the senators involved won't be held responsible for this mean-spirited
attack on college-age students and young professionals; no public voting
record means no accountability.
Currently, foreign students in science, technology, engineering and math
(STEM), are allowed to work in the U.S. for 12 months by using the OPT
program. Students finishing their degree can continue to work in the U.S.,
but they must transition to other work visas such as H-1B before the
12-month period has expired. OPT is often used as an interim visa because
the available H-1B visas run out within days of each new fiscal year.
Under the new regulation, the time period for OPT was increased from 12
months to 29 in order to give foreign STEM students more time to remain in
the United States to work, study, and obtain H-1B visas. The extension is a
de facto increase in the number of H-1B visas, but its effects are
potentially more damaging.
Extending OPT will create a large pool of foreign students and graduates
that remain in limbo until they get an H-1B or green card. Neither OPT or
H-1B visas have provisions that require employers to favor qualified
Americans, but OPT is worse because there is nothing that requires payment
of fair salaries, and there are no upper limits on how many of them are
allowed to work in the U.S.
This year alone, the DHS estimates there are 70,000 foreign students and
graduates waiting in the queue for an extension. They hold jobs that tens
of thousands of American students desperately need. It's a simple numbers
game - Americans are forced to compete for a diminishing number of jobs
with thousands of students from foreign countries who are willing to work
for less.
So those who thirst for vast quantities of cheap and educated labor scored
a huge victory at the expense of American students who are sacrificed as
collateral damage in the war to improve corporate earnings. Students and
recent grads won't be the only ones to feel the effects of this "job
buster." It won't take long until professionals with several years
experience are shunned from jobs that are occupied with those who
transitioned from OPT status to H-1B. Expect a downward spiral of wages as
the flood of foreign STEM students work their way up the labor food chain.
Normally when a regulation is being considered, there is a period of public
comment to consider all sides of the issue. But this time there was no
debate. Buried deep within the 48-page regulation, the DHS circumvented
protocol by invoking the "Administrative Procedure Act," allowing
procedures to be ignored when issues are thought to be vital to the public
interest. So DHS makes the extraordinary claim that extending OPT is a
national emergency that's so urgent implementation can't wait for debate.
They elevated the issue to same level as a terrorist dirty bomb attack!
The DHS document contains a hyperbolic warning that any delays in
implementation of the regulation would result in "serious damage to
important interests." Unmentioned is the fact that Bill Gates recently
lobbied the Senate for an OPT extension and made audacious claims that the
future of high-tech depends on the ability of Microsoft to employ and
retain foreign students.
Perhaps the biggest problem with this regulatory activism is
constitutional. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states that
Congress shall have the power to "establish a uniform Rule of
Naturalization." By increasing the number of foreign students who can work
while they study, the DHS, which is part of the executive branch, is
trampling the jurisdiction of the legislative branch. This is another all
too common example of constitutional malfeasance under the Bush
administration that shouldn't be tolerated.
Rob Sanchez is a Chandler resident and is a senior writing fellow for
Californians for Population Stabilization (www.capsweb.org). He can be
reached at admin@jobdestruction.info [admin@jobdestruction.info].
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http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/0205/chapter6.htm
The Immigration and Naturalization Service's Contacts With Two September 11
Terrorists: A Review of the INS's Admissions of Mohamed Atta and Marwan
Alshehhi, its Processing of their Change of Status Applications, and its
Efforts to Track Foreign Students in the United States
May 20, 2002
Office of the Inspector General
CHAPTER SIX
THE INS'S FOREIGN STUDENT PROGRAM
1. Introduction
In this chapter, we discuss broader issues regarding the process by
which foreign students gain admission to the United States and how the INS
tracks and monitors them once they enter the United States. Our evaluation
goes beyond the circumstances regarding Atta and Alshehhi. In this part of
our review, which we began in November 2001 in response to our concerns
about the tracking of foreign students that the events of September 11
highlighted, we focused on the INS's processes for admitting foreign
students and for certifying schools as eligible to receive foreign
students. We also evaluated the INS computer tracking systems for foreign
students - the system that exists now as well as the system the INS is
currently developing, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System
(SEVIS). We describe the deficiencies we observed in the INS foreign
student program, the history and development of SEVIS, the problems in the
foreign student program that SEVIS is designed to address, the deficiencies
in the program that SEVIS will not address, and the implementation
difficulties for SEVIS.
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# Conclusion
The INS's foreign student program has suffered from a lack of attention for
many years, and as a result, the INS lacks accurate data about the schools
that are authorized to issue I-20s, the students who obtain student visas
and student status, the current status of those students, and whether fraud
is being perpetuated in the foreign student program. The INS's
implementation of SEVIS will help solve some of the problems in the foreign
student program, but it will not cure all of the problems in the INS
foreign student program. The INS must not only implement an effective
electronic method tracking foreign students, it must also devote adequate
resources to managing the entire foreign student program.
We believe that it is not likely that the INS will be able to fully
implement SEVIS by January 30, 2003, as it contends it will. For full
implementation of SEVIS, all schools must be re-certified; inspectors,
adjudicators in the districts and the service centers, consular officers,
and DSOs at a minimum must be trained how to use SEVIS and what to do in
the event that the new system is not fully functioning; and students
currently in the system with valid I-20s must be accounted for in SEVIS.
If, as we believe it will be, full implementation of SEVIS is delayed
beyond January 2003, the INS will continue to operate a system in which it
knows little about the schools and students that participate in the foreign
student program.
Even after SEVIS is implemented, we believe the INS must devote adequate
resources to managing critical aspects of the foreign student program in
addition to SEVIS and its operations. This requires full-time, well-trained
personnel to carry out the important function of approving and
re-certifying schools. The INS should establish detailed procedures and
guidance to ensure that schools are properly approved, and re-certified and
de-certified when necessary. The INS must also decide which office will be
responsible for analyzing the information collected in SEVIS and provide
that office with guidance about its role and how analyses should be
completed to effectively monitor foreign students and schools. Similarly,
the INS must devote resources to verifying the accuracy of information
entered into SEVIS. Also, once potential fraud is identified, the INS must
devote resources to investigate that fraud. If the INS does not devote
sufficient personnel to address the approval and re-certification of
schools, to analyze the data collected in SEVIS, and to investigate
potential fraud, the impact of SEVIS will be minimal.
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http://www.interlatina.org/shop/otraspaginas.asp?paginanp=260&t=VACANTES-WORK-AND-TRAVEL-2009.htm
Listado de empleadores Work and Travel 2009 2010
Florida
Publix Supermarkets Orlando, Naples y Miami (8 vacantes)
Publix Supermarket Naples & Fort Myers (5 vacantes)
Stillwater appartments Miami (males only) (3 vacantes)
Wendy`s Pensacola, Florida (8 vacantes)
Pedi Cab Key West (21 or over) (10 vacantes)
Golden Hotel (14 vacantes, only female)
Colorado
Dollar Rent a Car (21 or over) 3 vacantes
Sales, Secret CO
Ski resorts
Ober 5 vacantes
Connecticut ski resorts (starting nov 4 2009) 3 vacantes
Woodbury Ski Area
Hoteles
Hilton Baton Rouge
Econo Lodge NY
Boomtown Hotel & Casino 2 vacantes
Fast Food
Mc Donalds Lafayette
SONIC Lafayette 5 vacantes
Subway, WI 3 vacantes
Harrisburg, PA 20 vacantes
Otros destinos y empleadores
USA Hostels San Diego 2 vacantes
Supermarket, NC 4 vacantes
Shell Stores 5 vacantes
Sales Ariel Las Vegas 5 vacantes
Casa Ole Resto, LA 5 vacantes
Cedar B, Lodge UT 3 vacantes
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http://www.internationalymca.org/ICCP/NewsLetters/INT_Y_NEWS_Fall_09.pdf
Job Fair in Paraguay
One hundred and eighty
university students and their
parents in Asuncisn, Paraguay,
recently attended an information
session about YMCA program
opportunities in the U.S.,
presented by John Hedbavny
of the International YMCA.
The presentation preceded a
two-day job fair attended by
Jacie Gdoviack, Director of
International Programs for the
YMCA of the Rockies (CO),
and Vladimir, representing
Publix, the fastest growing
supermarket chain in the U.S.
Both were kept busy Interviewing
for Winter Work &
Travel positions for both companies,
and for Trainee & Intern
positions at the Rockies
Snow Mountain Ranch and
Estes Park sites. Hedbavny
interviewed those interested in
being U.S. summer camp counselors
through ICCP. Some
forty-five students were hired
by Publix and seventeen by the
Y of the Rockies.
The job fair was organized
by Alexis Alcaraz, our recruiter
in Paraguay, Uruguay
and Argentina, and former
International Y Trainee.
Alcaraz and Hedbavny also
visited the U.S. Embassy in
Asuncisn to meet with the
Consul and further strengthen
the International Y s J-1 visa
programs. They then flew to
Montevideo, Uruguay, to promote
the J-1 programs in that
country, visit the ACJ (YMCA),
and meet with officials at the
U.S. embassy.
Interviewing:
Jacie Gdovick (front),
Y of the Rockies,
and Vladimir (back), Publix
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-225585-officials-immigration.html
University accused of being front for visa scam
By JON CASSIDY
2009-12-23 11:28:40
The owner and operator of California Union University -- a purported
university in Fullerton whose Web page is literally just one page -- is due
in court today to face federal charges that his school is actually a front
for a visa fraud scheme.
Samuel Chai Cho Oh, 65, surrendered to Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agents Tuesday morning, after a 10-month investigation into the school,
which purported to offer courses in four areas: Biblical studies, English
as a second language, Oriental medicine, and martial arts.
The school's federal certification to accept foreign students was revoked
in October, authorities said.
Immigration officials allege that Oh collected $40,000 to $50,000 a month
from "students" that received visa application forms in exchange.
At the school, students rarely if ever attended class and there were no
teachers seen, immigration officials said.
Oh even staged graduation ceremonies and handed out phony diplomas,
authorities said.
In March, immigration agents and officials from the Student and Exchange
Visitor Program paid a surprise visit to the CUU campus at 905 S. Euclid
St. The school had more than 300 students on its rolls, but Oh could only
produce schedules for a few computer and English classes, officials said.
According to an affidavit filed in the case, officials arrested and
interviewed more than 30 students, who said they paid from $600 to more
than $10,000 for documents needed to get a visa, and never actually
attended class or saw teachers at the school.
Oh, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Korea, also serves as pastor
at Union Church on the CUU campus. If convicted of the conspiracy charge,
he faces up to five years in prison.
ICE has seized more than $400,000 from Oh and an associate.
Miguel Unzueta, special agent in charge for the ICE Office of
Investigations in Los Angeles, said in a press release that student visas
are meant for people "to enrich themselves with the remarkable learning
opportunities available here," not with money.
Nobody answered the university's phone today.
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