{"id":621,"date":"2012-08-23T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2012-08-23T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:21:20","slug":"j2-visa-holder-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"J2 Visa Holder Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m a J2 holder.\u00a0I plan to file for a divorce and would still like to stay in the US.\u00a0 We\u2019re both subject to the two year requirement because he is on the skills list.\u00a0Am I still subject after we divorce?\u00a0If yes, can I still get a waiver or can only my husband apply for it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, you will still be subject even if you divorce your husband.\u00a0In most situations, only the J1 visa holder can apply for a waiver but in cases involving divorce or death of the J1 visa holder, the J2 visa holder can apply for a waiver independently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a J2 holder.\u00a0I plan to file for a divorce and would still like to stay in the US.\u00a0 We\u2019re both subject to the two year requirement because he is on the skills list.\u00a0Am I still subject after we divorce?\u00a0If yes, can I still get a waiver or can only my husband apply for it? &#8230; <a title=\"J2 Visa Holder Divorce\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=621\" aria-label=\"Read more about J2 Visa Holder Divorce\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,146],"tags":[179,278],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-1-visa-waiver","category-j-2-visa","tag-j-1-visa-waiver","tag-j-2-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}