Hello CC Nepal community,
I am also one of the students who applied to US colleges in for the class of 2020. If you didn’t notice my ordeal, I had been rejected by each and every college that i applied to including my safeties and i am currently studying BE Mechanical Engineering at Kathmendu University.
So my question to this community is… is it realistic to aim to do internship in Any of the US mechanical industry in the senior year of my college? Will the compaties over there accept my application for the internship? Has anyone done this before? If so please help me out here fellas
Applying straight from Nepal to US? I highly, highly doubt it. To do an internship in the US as an international student, you have to apply for CPT (while a student) or OPT (after graduating) - which you only get under F1-visa provisions. Otherwise, the only option is to have work-permit (H1b) or greencard.
The visa is the easiest part. You can apply for a J-1 visa to complete an internship in the US. The internship has to be supervised by a government-approved organization separate from your employer. These organizations are called “program sponsor.” They will evaluate your internship plan, verify that your employer satisfies all requirements for the internship program, and then issue your visa documents. Please be aware that you will have to pay your program sponsor.
https://j1visa.state.gov/programs/intern
The difficulty would be finding an employer. I have only met a handful of students from foreign universities who were able to find an internship in the US. All of them did it through contacts: friends in the US, university professors who had collaborators in the US, etc.
The government says that 25,000 J-1 visas were issued specifically for interns in 2016. While that’s a small number compared to the half million student visas that were issued in the same time period, it does mean that there’s hope.