Applying to our program

Most our program participants will choose the Inbound Application. American students who wish to train in Europe, Asia, Africa or Australia should choose the Outbound Application.

Inbound applicants: please read the guide below. To better visualize the process imagine John as a prospective participant and trace his successful procedure of applying, step-by-step. Please keep in mind that this simplified schedule does not contain information about payments of any fees. Be sure to read our instruction packet thoroughly for detailed instructions.

Guide through the application procedure:

  • John contacts us by phone, email or via web page
  • We give John a short interview and decide we are interested in John. We ask him for his C.V.
  • John's C.V. appears adequate and appropriate for our program, so we send him our official application form
  • John's application is returned and looks good (all required documents, signatures, at least 2-3 good letters of recommendation, relevant photographs, relevant experience/ college or academic record, etc.) . Internship staff decide it is possible to find a placement suiting his requirements and abilities
  • According to his 3 choices on his application form (so make sure your choices are what you really want to do) we send John's application to a number of hosts with whom we have agreements. In sending John's application to a prospective host employer, we  can not over emphasize how important it is to send us a neat and interesting application!
  • Any employer interested in hosting John would contact our office
  • We contact John, giving him details of his prospective host business. Now John decides if he likes this particular host or not. There are many factors determining how many hosts John has to choose from. Sometimes it is really difficult to find a good match and we may only give him one selected host
  • John decides he wants to go for it. We sign a host agreement with his host employer and we send John some paperwork, giving him more information about getting a J-1 visa. After having received our documents and reading our instructions, John is ready to apply for his J-1 trainee/intern visa at the nearest U.S. Consulate
  • After John has received his visa from the Consulate he arranges his travel to Columbus, Ohio for his orientation   program, after which he will travel on to his host placement (read our instructions on this travel carefully). John notifies us of his travel arrangements in detail, prior to departing his home country
  • John can depart Columbus after 6:30PM on the day of his orientation (only if he will arrive at a decent time for his host to meet him at his final destination). Otherwise, John can stay a second night in Columbus and travel to his host employer the following morning