What a company actually has to do to host a J-1 intern Research file
Who will actually sponsor you
Every organisation that can sponsor a J-1 Intern or Trainee, what each one will and will not do for you, and what it costs. For any field, from any country.
What you get
- All 114 designated Intern and Trainee sponsors, with category, state, phone and website, and the duplicates in the official register merged
- What 15 of them answered on the two questions that decide it: will you find me a host, and what do you charge
- Every fee quote in full, broken into programme, application, site visit and insurance, and what each one leaves out
- The regulated costs that sit on top of every sponsor's fee, cited to the rule that sets them
- The 5 websites the State Department publishes that return a 404
- How many people actually did this last year, where they came from and where they went, from the State Department's own 2025 count
- The 10 occupational categories a placement may be in, and the test that decides whether you are an Intern or a Trainee, quoted from the regulation
The State Department publishes a directory of every organisation allowed to issue a DS-2019, and no prices at all. Most sponsors do not publish them either: of eight fee pages checked, seven carried no number.
Designation is national and identical, so the register tells you nothing about the four things that actually differ between sponsors: whether they will find the host or only sponsor one you bring, which fields their placement programmes run, where their host network actually is, and whether they take you directly or only through a representative in your own country.
The only way to learn any of it is to write and wait. This is that, already done.
Who it is not for
If you already have a sponsor, or you are on a programme that names one for you, this will tell you things you know. It is for the person who has been told to find a sponsor and cannot work out where the list is, or what any of them charge.