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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:09:30 -0500
I am German and was funded for 2 years as postdoc through SNF (I also
was a PhD student and postdoc at UniZH/ETHZ before). As long as my
money came from Switzerland, I had the 2 year thing on my visum. I
have now US funding and my new visum (extended in Dec) says 2 year
rule does not apply. I didn't do anything. My wife (Swiss) did not
have her SNF fellowship approved when she applied for her visum the
first time and she was never subject to two year rule.
I am not sure what we learn from that. Seems to me the whole 2 year
thing is a bureaucratic relict that nobody is really interested in
enforcing (appears to be easy to get out) and nobody is interested in
doing away with either.
Christian
>Hi!
>
>I am French and made my PhD at ETH Zurich. I applied for a post-doc
>scholarship
>from the Swiss National fund, and got it to work here at the US Geological
>Survey, Menlo Park, CA (and guess on what subject... yes, on earthquake
>mechanics!).
>
>The 2-year rule applies to my J1 visa (it's written on it) but I fail to
>understand why, since I would have no living/working permit to go back to
>Switzerland, and France didn't pay a dime for my education. Are there other
>people on the list in this situation? non-swiss people who came here on swiss
>money and have a J1 visa?
>
>Thanks for any info you could provide.
>
>Delphine.
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Received on Thu Jan 23 2003 - 20:58:02 PST
