For questions related to your stay at UC Berkeley as a J-1 Visiting Professor or Researcher, please email jscholar@berkeley.edu

Credit: Keegan Houser
Pre-Arrival

Credit: Elena Zhukova
Post-Arrival
- Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs
- Maintaining Legal Status in the U.S.
- Inviting Family to Join or Visit You
- Address Notification Requirement
- 24-month Bar On Repeat Visits
- 2-year Home Country Requirement
- Travel and Re-entry to the U.S.
- Travel to Canada or Mexico
- Off-campus Payment Authorization
- J-2 Dependents' Employment
- Taxes in the U.S.
- Extending J-1 in the U.S.
- Transferring Your Program
- Site of Activity