Some J-1 Exchange Visitors* may be subject to a two-year home-country physical presence requirement which requires you to return to your home country for at least two years at the end of your exchange visitor program. This is also known as the foreign residence requirement under US law, Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 212(e). As a J-1 Exchange Visitor, US law requires a two-year period of home residency before an individual applies for non-immigrant visas, (i.e., B-1 and B-2) as temporary workers (i.e., H-1B), or for permanent residency in the United States (i.e., EB-2). This requirement does not prevent you from reentry into the United States within the two-year period to attend conferences, tourism, or for further study nor does this requirement prevent you from going to a third country after leaving the US. The US Department of State reserves the right to make final determination regarding 212(e). *Note, if the J-1 is subject to the two-year home-country physical presence requirement, their accompanying J-2 Dependents are also automatically subject.