{"id":569,"date":"2012-08-22T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:19:14","slug":"f1-visa-after-j1-waiver-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"F1 Visa After J1 Waiver Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am a graduate student at USC and I am originally from Poland.\u00a0I originally came to United States on J1 visa.\u00a0I got a J1 waiver and changed to F1 visa.\u00a0I don\u2019t have any current visa in my passport.\u00a0I need to travel home to visit my parents and was wondering how I should go about it?\u00a0Will I have any trouble coming back to United States because I got the J1 waiver?\u00a0Thanks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because you do not have a F1 visa in your passport, you will need to apply for a F1 visa at the US Embassy.\u00a0While you should not have any additional difficulty in securing the visa simply because you obtained a J1 waiver, you will still need to prove to the satisfaction of the consular officer that you have strong ties to Poland and that you intend to return upon completion of your studies.\u00a0This can be difficult to do if you do not have family or employment in Poland or you have already been in the US for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a graduate student at USC and I am originally from Poland.\u00a0I originally came to United States on J1 visa.\u00a0I got a J1 waiver and changed to F1 visa.\u00a0I don\u2019t have any current visa in my passport.\u00a0I need to travel home to visit my parents and was wondering how I should go about it?\u00a0Will &#8230; <a title=\"F1 Visa After J1 Waiver Approval\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=569\" aria-label=\"Read more about F1 Visa After J1 Waiver Approval\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,92,27],"tags":[254,231,179],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f-1-visa","category-j-1-visa","category-j-1-visa-waiver","tag-f-1-visa","tag-j-1-visa","tag-j-1-visa-waiver"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>F1 Visa After J1 Waiver Approval - US Immigration Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=569\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"F1 Visa After J1 Waiver Approval - US Immigration Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am a graduate student at USC and I am originally from Poland.\u00a0I originally came to United States on J1 visa.\u00a0I got a J1 waiver and changed to F1 visa.\u00a0I don\u2019t have any current visa in my passport.\u00a0I need to travel home to visit my parents and was wondering how I should go about it?\u00a0Will ... 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