From: am299bv@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.visa.us
Subject: Re: Waiver of J-1 residency requirement for Indians?
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:20:04 GMT
Reply-To: rbhumbla@ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian
Organization: University of California, San Diego
In-reply-to: am299bv@sdcc15.ucsd.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 22:43:22 GMT

I had asked for the procedure for getting a waiver for the J-1 visa
home residency requirement for Indians.  I received the following
information from Mahalingam Sankararaman (sankar@ecn.purdue.edu) which
tells you step-by-step what to do in such a case.

Ravi

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Procedure for obtaining a waiver of the J-1 2 yr  home  residence
requirement

(1) Obtain a "No Obligation to Return to India"  form  from  your
nearest Indian consulate

(2) Fill out this form, make four copies

(3) Get these copies notarized and send them back to  the  consu-
late.  The  consulate  will authenticate these, retain a copy and
return three to you.  There is an authentication fee,  I  believe
it  is  $6.00/copy,  consult the Indian consulate for the mode of
payment, etc.  The  consulate  office  might  want  to  see  your
passport.  If you are not going in person, send them by registred
mail with ack.  due (yep  those  things  exist  in  this  country
also).

(4) Send these out to the following agencies  in  India  (make  a
copy for yourself)

A) Government of India
   Ministry of Human Resources (Department of Education)
   E.S.5 Section
   Shastri Bhavan
   New Delhi

B> The passport office where you had yours issued
   (For Mds this is at 26 Haddows Rd. Madras 600006)

C> Your state government Home ministry

for Tamil Nadu

    Deputy Secretary to Government of TN
    Home Ministry ( Citz.B department)
    Tamil Nadu State Government
    Fort Saint George
    Madras 600 009

Obtaining NORI from (A) is almost  easy  and  most  probably  you
don't have to do anything.

From B) it might be little bit difficult. They seek verification,
among  others, from the local CID dept. and or Police department,
who might send a CID (yeah right) to check on you,  basically  to
visit  your  parents  home and hopefully your parents are home at
that time or else they will simply sit on  these  papers.  It  is
advisable to check on the things with the passport office, If you
have somebody there.

C) will seek verification of from the colleges you attended,  Su-
perintendant  of  Police and the DCE (?) department.  It's advis-
able to follow up on these sources and make sure  they  send  the
forms back to the Home Ministry promptly.


(5) Ask all these three agencies to send a copy to  you  and  the
original  to the Indian consulate office, form which you intiated
the process, in the US.

Indian consulate office, upon receiving all the froms A, B and  C
they  will inform you about the fact that they received the forms
and advise the Embassy of India at Washington to issue  the  NORI
certificate.

It is a good idea to check up on the consular office to see  what
and how things are going.

Sometimes, they keep track of all the copies  they  received  and
most  of  the time they will simply say, "No we have not received
any". Don't worry. Keep your copies from the A, B and C, and tell
them you have the copies and you want to proceed further. At this
stage, it is better to go to  the  consulate  office  personally.
There  might  be  a  fee for this also. If you go in person, make
sure you get the official notification (to the Embassy of  India,
Washinton that this office sends) while you wait or pickup latter
that day.

(6) After the Indian embassy receives all these  3  papers,  they
will  notify  you  of  their "no objection" from Indian side  and
forward your documents to the USIS, Washington  DC  for  approval
from the American side

(7) The USIS will send you a form called Data Sheet and need  you
to  send copies of all the IAP66 forms that you used while study-
ing in the US, right from the time you first landed in USA.

Fill up the Data Sheet and send it back to USIS along  with  your
IAP  66.  Wait  for  30-90 days. Then There will be a letter from
USIS informing you that your waiver is being recommended  to  the
INS.  At  this stage it is almost complete. Even though, you have
not gotten your final waiver from INS yet, this will do  in  most
cases.  Hang  on  to  this.  At this stage, the USIS will forward
their approval of the waiver to INS (to your local INS).

(8) Wait for 4 to 6 weeks. And the final approval  will  come  to
you from the INS



































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Ravinder Bhumbla	rbhumbla@ucsd.edu    U. of California, San Diego