In article <1504988.1088455826@britishexpats.com>,
ronitb2004 wrote:
(snip)
>A friend of ours
>is in the process of boating his J1 visa (a visiting scholar) he is
>currently in the US on a tourist visa. Can he go to a us consulate in
>Canada or dose he have to travel all the way to Britain in order to do
>the visa statues change ?
(snip)
I am British and got my J-1 visa renewed in Toronto. (Warning: I was a
visiting scholar, switched to being a J-1 student for a bit, then
found that you can't switch back from student to scholar!) However, it
wasn't much of a risk for me because there was some deal whereby if
you only go out of the US for a short time, to a contiguous territory,
you could keep you old status instead of being particularly reexamined
for admission, so if they'd refused the renewal I'd not have been
stuck outside the US; I already had J-1 status. I can't remember the
specifics of that, though, and I don't know if it still exists.
-- Mark |