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Letter of no objection - recommendation from J1 sponsor absolutely necessary?

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anja&birch   0

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Hi everybody,

I used to live and work as a postdoc in the US for 4 years under a J1 with the 2 year rule attached. I'm currently looking into getting the 2 year rule waived since my boyfriend and I are planning to get married and really don't want to spend two years apart from each other. The German embassy lists a favorable recommendation of my J1 sponsor (the NIH, a US government agency) on their website as one of the requirements for a letter of no objection, but NIH only grants those if I would get an offer for a job in biomedical research. My questions are:

1. Is my only chance finding a job for which I would get an O visa, or are other non-immigration work visas possible as well?

2. Is there any way to optain a letter of no objection/waiver without the favorable recommendation from my J1 sponsor?

Thanks a lot!

Anja

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1. If you are getting married a work visa is not needed. Most seem to be J with an odd H in the Medical Field.

2. As I understand it the Sponsor needs to OK it.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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