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J1 applications for next summer are now open

All students seeking to travel to work in the US next summer will need to provide evidence of a pre-arranged job.

IN COLLEGE AND thinking of going abroad next summer? Applications to go live and work in the US next summer are now open.

USIT has said that the J1 visa programme remains a long-standing rite of passage for many Irish college students.

Applications can made online at j1online.ie.

All students seeking to travel to work in the US next summer will need to provide evidence of a pre-arranged job across the pond as part of their J1 applications, a measure which was brought in last year.

USIT said that it offers basic and premium packages, with the latter package helping students to arrange jobs over in the US.

Despite intense lobbying from the Irish government in recent years, the US has retained the system of pre-arranged employment as a requirement for J1 visas.

A statement from the US embassy added that, since its inception over 50 years ago, 150,000 students have embarked to the US on a J1 programme from Ireland.

There was good news on the J-1 front last December, with the 12-month visa extended for another three years, after concerns were raised following previous comments made by President Donald Trump.

Reacting to the news, then-Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said: “The J1 programme is an important and valued part of Ireland’s bilateral relations with the United States.”

Read: Thinking of heading the US this summer? There are loads more J-1s going around

Read: Irish woman on J1 in Chicago didn’t recognise Leo Varadkar when he walked into her restaurant

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:24 AM

    “The scale of the problem”… Brilliant

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    Jul 25th 2014, 10:04 AM

    Those shops are codding us with their labels…

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    Jul 25th 2014, 10:34 AM

    You tell em ed!

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:03 AM

    Time to lockout all Irish rail workers until they learn manners, a few months going hungry would help them reevaluate their priorities

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:45 AM

    note to Obama, a company is not a person and therefore cannot renounce their citizenship

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:51 AM

    Not what you meant, but notable http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

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    Jul 25th 2014, 11:21 AM

    A reasonable and sensible addition of information to a comment thread!? Get out of here Robert, there’s no place for your kind here.

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    Jul 25th 2014, 7:51 PM

    Note to Declan…wake up.Corporations have been people since before Obama’s presidency

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:09 AM

    mislabelling of fish in shops gets gets a mention on 9 at 9 but nothing about the poor 13 year old boy who drowned in drogheda yesterday, well done the journal.

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:10 AM

    Hi Ken, that was the top story in our News Fix last night: http://jrnl.ie/1588309

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    Jul 25th 2014, 9:36 AM

    sorry nicky my mistake you can remove that comment if you wish

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    Jul 25th 2014, 10:28 AM

    The fish packaging saga, the scale of the issue is not yet know! Oh the puns they hurt!

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