The US Department of State has made a change to the J1 Visa rules.
As of June 2025, anyone applying for the United States of America’s J1 visa must adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts from the last 5 years to PUBLIC.
You must do this before your visa interview and accounts must remain public until your visa is approved + you have received your passport back from the US Embassy.
Accounts that are set to private will likely result in your visa application being REFUSED.
What is the J-1 Visa?
The J-1 visa is a nonimmigrant visa category designed to facilitate cultural exchange and international collaboration in fields such as education, medicine, research, and technology.
The J-1 visa is an extremely popular visa for young people who want to work in Summer Camps as Camp Counselors during the summer holiday period.
If you are wanting to work in a summer camp as a Camp Counselor, be aware of this visa rule change. As this change will affect you getting a US summer camp jobs, particularly if you don’t want to comply.
Read more: How to be a Camp Counselor on a US Summer Camp.
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My Essential Live and Work Abroad (and Play) Resources
🏠 Where Will You Be Sleeping Tonight? – Get a bed in a hostel dorm through HostelWorld or for a hotel room check out Booking.com. Get free accommodation house and pet sitting through Trusted Housesitters – this has saved me thousands on accommodation, no joke!
✈️ Need a cheap and flexible airfare – head to Skyscanner.
🚙 Car Rental – search and compare vehicles at DiscoverCars.
🚆 Train Travel: I love riding the rails. For a rail pass in Europe head to Raileurope. And Japan has a great one too – JapanRail Pass.
🚌 Travelling by bus is often the cheapest way to travel. Compare and get a ticket or a pass at Busbud.
🏃🏻♀️ Jump-the-queue entrance tickets and day tours: I book these through GetYourGuide.
🌏 How to pick a country to live and work abroad in? Check out my Working Holiday Visa Country Guides and Digital Nomad Visa Country Guides to see where you can live work play travel abroad.
👕 For travel clothing and gear I get a lot of stuff from Amazon, North Face and Anaconda.
🚑 Should you buy travel insurance? Absolutely Yes! SafetyWing is great digital nomads and long-term travellers and World Normads has policies for general and adventure travel.
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