Sponsor agency
What are the obligations towards the Sponsoring Agency
Sponsor agency
Every student on the W&T program must have a Sponsoring Agency. A sponsoring agency is an organization that operates according to the rules of the State Department and has an approved license to operate. Before your departure to the USA, the sponsors check the legality of the work of the employer whose job offer you are signing and whether he meets all the conditions regulated by the program to receive and cooperate with J1 students. It also checks the correctness of the accommodation you will be staying in. It provides the necessary documentation on the basis of which you go for a visa. You did not need to know this information until now, because while you are in Serbia, American Adventure will mediate between you and the Sponsor Agency. However, you will certainly have to get to know them before leaving for America because that is where their real role begins, which is to ensure that all your rights are respected, but also to remind you that you also have obligations to the program and to the Sponsoring Agency and according to the employer and the person who rents your accommodation.
What are the obligations towards the Sponsor Agency?
- Upon arrival in the USA, the residential address should be reported to the sponsoring agency
The most important thing is to learn what documents to fill out and where to report when entering the US.
You need to first register on SEVIS no later than 72 hours after your arrival in the USA.
It's very simple, you log in to your account (you will receive instructions for all of the above during the program) and enter the required data. - Monthly Check-In. Regular communication with sponsoring agencies
Just as you left your information when you entered the US, you also need to check in monthly through your SEVIS account on the sponsor's website.
You need to leave all the information requested from you on your account. They are mostly compiled in the form of a short questionnaire about the previous month spent in the USA. You will most often receive your monthly questionnaires from your Sponsoring Agencies that you need to fill out, so it is very important to check your emails regularly. - Report departure from the US
Departure from the USA is reported in the same way through the SEVIS program. Fill in the dates of departure from the country and your commitment to sponsors ends here. - Notify the Sponsors of any change of residence in the USA
When changing the address where you live, you are obliged to immediately enter the information of the new residence in your SEVIS account.
You have the right to change your place of residence if you are not satisfied with the original one, but you are obliged to report this to the sponsor immediately, so that he can find you at any moment. Information about your change of residence is also very important for the delivery of checks and other documents during the program. - Owellnotify Sponsor of any problem that you CANNOT resolve. Ask for help
As we mentioned above, the sponsoring agencies are in charge of taking care of you from the moment you step on the soil of the USA and to meet you if you have any problems, obstacles, questions.
Before leaving Serbia, you will receive all the necessary information about your sponsor, contacts where you can get the persons from the agency responsible for you (address of the sponsoring agency, e-mail, contact numbers, emergency numbers). - Ddirty work - additional. Must notify Sponsors about other business. Do not start work until the sponsor approves the employer
Unfortunately, many participants avoid this obligation, so over time stricter rules were introduced as far as additional work is concerned.
You have to understand that you don't lose anything by applying for additional work. The sponsor can monitor that employer and protect you if necessary, and of course the insurance covers everything related to the other employer as well as for the primary job.
The process of verifying additional work is short, you need to wait a few days at most for the employer to verify, and if you break this rule and start working before approval or, in the worst case, not reporting the additional work, it can lead to the cancellation of the visa and termination of the program.
Don't let that happen and jeopardize the program out of impatience.
If you do not report additional work the sponsor cannot protect you in case of possible misunderstandings with the employer,