what's up you guys it's prietam here so today i'm talking about the j-1 visa and
how you can come to the united states if you're getting a j-1 visa and what are the cost actually
that you need to actually pay for this visa so this visa is a non-immigrant visa of course
and if you are applying for j-1 visa in this visa american government are actually exchanging the
student from another foreign country to united states suppose you are just about to graduate
or you just graduated already and you are thinking about going abroad and do your work there or maybe
do a summer internship or anything that you like for 12 months that this visa is the best uh that
on the list that you can come to united states and you can work after obtaining this visa so today
we're going to talk about a little bit of how much money that you are looking at for up ahead for
spending these categories of visa that yeah that will help you actually and of course you're gonna
earn back that money because while you're gonna work here they're gonna treat you as a full-time
intern and as a full-time employee-like manner so of course you will earn money here also so before
going into this topic i just want to let you know suppose this visa categories have a lot of
things that you can do you can do your internship you can do a pair if you're a researcher or if
you're a scholar suppose if you are from tourism background hospitality background commerce science
arts culture business and the list goes on and on so there is a lot of opportunity if you are from
this background and if you want to come into the united states and work here and that's about it
so in my case i started as a hospitality student and after i started in 2015 i graduated at 2018 it
was a three years of graduation course back there and i graduated from india west bengal so after
graduating i was thinking about how should i move another country or at least to get some uh get to
go some good countries and get some exposure and on that time i got the tremendous opportunity
to come to the united states and obtaining the j-1 visa was the best thing that can happen to
me that's how i get into the united states thank you so much safras barry for commenting down below
on my previous video and telling me to cover this topic i hope you are keep watching this video as
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so after getting my j1 visa after about thinking uh for a six month that what i should do after
graduating then i got my j1 visa and then there was a agent that i go talk with them and they
told me it's gonna cost me around five thousand dollar uh five thousand dollar is a lot of money
back in the time when i was just graduated and i didn't know that it's not gonna be a lot of things
back in the time that i don't i need to pay by myself except those five thousand dollars so
it's just an approximate amount for you guys just to make you just to make sure that you will know
what is the approximate amount that you will be needing for for that j1 visa so 5 000 is
it's gonna be a lot of steps that will cover this five thousand dollar and i'm telling you this is
again for just an approximate amount that i said uh because i have already i have already spent the
similar amount if not the same amount maybe like maybe 500 more or less so that's how i will give
you uh the information about that you need to pay so when i said the five thousand dollars it's like
a lot of money but you need to pay for your application fees for your savings fees for
your insurance and for your ds 2019 shipment so all this will include in this 5 dollar
so first of all when you contact the sponsor then they will give you all the information about
how the thing work and how the program is uh they will tell you to read their testimonials
and a lot of stuff like it's the reviews they are any good or not and after reading that uh then
you will get to choose the sponsor and then you will give them a little money up ahead which is
approximate 500 so after giving them that application fee they will process you and then you
need to go for an interview which will be taken by the sponsor uh sponsor in the united states
and when the sponsor will take your interview it's like they will decided that are you really
like semi-fluent or fluent on english like are you able to cooperate with the other people in the
united states are you able to do the good teamwork and what is going on here so something like that
and that they will let you know on that email that what is going to be the next step so in my point
uh in my point in my case that i had the next step after giving the sponsor interview they will send
me the properties that the the properties in my case where the hotels obviously because i
am from uh the hospitality management background so they sent me a property like a supposed hotel
so in my case it was uh sun valley idaho at the very first and on that time i was still due with
my one semester at my college so after uh giving the interview with the property it got cancelled
somehow because they did not wanted they did not wanted any delay with their with their interns
uh to come to the united states they wanted as soon as possible because i thought that it got
cancelled because they needed some interns fast so that's why they don't uh they can they can start
their program or some sort something happened so the five thousand dollar that i mentioned before
yeah that you need to pay in a different steps so which are application fee your savings fee your
insurance and your ds shipment so what's going to happen after you decided your sponsor then you
will go to your sponsor you will email them and they will ask you all the things necessary and
after asking you uh the things necessary they will ask you also for processing you to give
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so after with the application fee then you have to pay for your savings fee savvy stands for
students exchange visitor information system so after giving this uh fee which is 220 dollars and
after giving the savings fee uh sometime the sponsor include the insurance for you that you
don't need to pay it by yourself uh or you need to pay by yourself that sponsor will let you know
and after that's why i always say that you should talk to your sponsor first and talk to them
thoroughly and read their brochure or read their guidelines what they're trying to say for you to
come to the united states and this is going to be helpful for you that all i'm saying and after that
they will create a ds which is the permission from the american government for you to come to the
united states and work so they will ship you the ds 2019 which you will need to show at the airport
uh if they want to ask you or if they saw that you are holding a j1 visa they will they might ask you
the ds 2019 then you can show it to them so they the sponsor will send you the ds 2019 so remember
this is the main deal this is the main topic then it can be 4 500 or it can be 5 000 i'm not sure
but that's an approx up amount that i figure it would be easy to figure it out for yourself and
that's why you need to talk to the sponsor and think what happened after suppose everything
was done and then i gave my visa interview i got my visa and then what should i do now the thing
you need to do the visa interview fee which is 160 dollar that you need to pay for yourself
they are not gonna pay the sponsor not gonna pay because you need to get an appointment at the u.s
embassy or maybe that at the us consulate whatever ad that's near to your house on the usmbc website
you need to go file uh for an interview and then you need to pay for 160 which is uh nothing you
can do about it because every time you will give the interview you have to pay this amount so in
my case i pay two times for this 160 because i gave two times the visa interview because i
got rejected on the first time and then on my second time i got approved so i paid two times
just by myself it was not included with that five thousand dollars and another expenses was the
airfare and the travel cost so these are general uh knowledge like you need to buy your own ticket
it's not comes with the sponsor or maybe the property will send you the ticket i i don't know
in my case they don't send me any tickets so i had to buy my own and then after buying the ticket
then i'm ready to go good to go but before you're good to go the sponsor or in that case if you are
selectively find your properties they will send you an information about which place you are going
and how much money you should bring it in the first hand for your room expenses for your living
expenses your personal expenses these will help you a lot and thank you for watching my video
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