'Summer Work/Travel' Brings Many Students to US

'Summer Work/Travel' Brings Many Students to US
Last year, 150,000 foreign college students took part in this J-1 visa exchange program during their summer vacations. Transcript of radio broadcast:
09 July 2008

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

This week, we answer a question from a student in Odessa, Ukraine. Marushka wants to know about a program that lets foreign students work in the United States during their summer vacations.

The program is called Summer Work/Travel. The State Department administers it for full-time college or university students who speak English well.


Students come on a J-one exchange visa. They can work for up to four months during their school break. They generally work in service jobs in stores, resorts, hotels, restaurants and amusement parks. But summer internships are also permitted.
"Summer" in this case means summer in the student's country. Those from south of the equator come to the United States during the northern winter.

Students cannot work as housekeepers in private homes or be involved in patient care. And they are supposed to be paid the same as Americans.

Congress created this popular program under a nineteen sixty-one law, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act. Last year, one hundred fifty thousand students came to the United States this way.

Students can do the Summer Work/Travel program more than once.

Sally Lawrence heads the State Department office responsible for the program. She says students should begin to gather information a year before they want to travel.

More than fifty organizations are approved to act as sponsors. Sally Lawrence advises students to avoid unapproved groups offering services, and to research a few different sponsors.

Sponsors must confirm the English language ability of students and make sure they are currently in school. But sponsors do not all charge the same price for their services.

Another difference: some sponsors arrange employment and housing for students before they leave home. Others permit students to find their own jobs after they arrive.

Sally Lawrence says the first thing to do is to find the list of sponsors on the Web page for J visa exchange programs.

The address is a little long, but here it is: exchanges.state.gov/education/jexchanges. Click on Designated Sponsor List, then choose Summer Work/Travel under Category Description. For more information about the program, go to the main page and click on Private Sector Programs.

To make it easier, we'll post a link at voaspecialenglish.com. And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Steve Ember.

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'暑期工作/旅行'带来了很多学生，美国
去年， 15.0万外国大学生参加了这次的J - 1签证的交流计划，在他们的暑假。全文电台广播：
2008年7月9日

这是美国之音特别英语教育的报告。

这个星期，我们回答一个问题，从一个学生在敖德萨，乌克兰。马鲁什卡想知道一个程式，让外国学生在美国工作期间，他们的暑假。

该计划是所谓的暑期工作/旅行。国务院管理，它为全职的时间学院或大学的学生谁讲英语。


学生来对一的J - 1交流签证。他们可以工作长达四个月期间，学校打破。他们一般工作在服务工作，在商店，度假村，酒店，餐厅及游乐公园。但夏季实习也获准。
“夏天”在这种情况下，就是夏天在学生的国家。那些从赤道以南来美国在北半球冬季。

学生不能工作，作为管家，在私营安老院或参与照顾病人。他们假定要付出相同的美国人。

国会设立这个受欢迎的程序下， 1961年法，相互教育和文化的交流行为。去年， 15.0万的学生来到美国的这种方式。

学生可以做暑期工作/旅行计划，一次以上。

萨利劳伦斯元首国务院办公室负责该计划。她说，学生应该开始收集资料，一年前他们想要的旅行。

以上50组织批准，以作为提案国。萨利劳伦斯意见的学生，以避免未经批准的群体提供服务，并以研究几种不同的提案国。

赞助商必须确认的英语能力，学生，并确保他们目前在学校。但是，赞助商不负责所有相同的价格为他们服务。

另一个差别：一些赞助商，安排就业和住房方面为学生之前，他们离开家园。其他许可证学生找到自己的职位后，他们的到来。

萨利劳伦斯说，要做的第一件事是要找出提案国名单上的网页律政司司长签证的交流项目。

地址是有点长，但在这里，它是： exchanges.state.gov /教育/ jexchanges 。按一下指定赞助商的名单，然后选择暑期工作/旅游类下的说明。如需了解更多关于计划，去主要页并点击私营部门的计划。

为了方便，我们将张贴连结voaspecialenglish.com 。这是该美国之音特别英语教育的报告，写的南希斯坦巴克。我史蒂夫ember 。