Employment

On Campus Employment

J-1 scholars are authorized to work only if this employment is reflected in the funding sources listed on the DS-2019.  If UI was not listed as part of your funding, you can obtain permission from OISS for on-campus employment related to your J-1 program. 

Your program sponsor or the person offering you employment should contact the Office of International Students and Scholars with details on the proposed employment.  If the employment is professional employment related to your program it will be approved.  Employment which is not related to your program is not allowed.

Any change in employment must be also approved by OISS.

Short Term Lectures and Consultations Off Campus

The federal regulations governing professors, research scholars and short-term scholars in J-1 status permit these “exchange visitors” to be paid for “occasional lectures and short term consultations” which are directly related to the exchange visitor’s program, incidental to the primary program activities, and which do not delay the completion of the program.   Scholars who are classified as “specialists” may not be paid for short term lectures and consultations.

To obtain authorization for occasional lectures or consultations for which you will be paid, you need to provide to the Office of International Students and Scholars both a letter from the person wanting to pay you, giving the terms and conditions of the offer, and a letter from your department head or faculty sponsor recommending the proposed activity and briefly explaining ho w it will enhance your exchange visitor program.

On the basis of these two letters, the OISS will issue an approval letter for the activity.