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Thanks for your reply. Getting a visa lawyer might be a good idea. In the meantime he has a B visa (until 2021 with multiple entries) which I presume he can use to stay with me until we sort out the J2. In the case you stated, did the person get their visa approved (while declaring the criminal conviction) and STILL get turned away at the border? In our case we'll have to go through the whole visa process including a waiver application (which takes at least 6 months), can we still get turned away at the border at the whim of an official? Many thanks!

Hi, thanks for your response. I never got any notifications regarding this post so I now just found it with a random Google search. We're now married and I've been admitted into my dream school, happy days! I deferred entry to 2018 so now I'm again looking for information on J-2 visas with criminal convictions. We're both Europeans, and both been living in the UK for over 5 years. My husband has a conviction for "burglary" in the UK from 2009 when he was 18. He helped someone get into their house because the person told him he had locked himself out, when in reality it was someone else's flat. My husband was convicted for burglary, not trespassing, because the guy he helped gave him a few cigarettes as thanks for his help. The court recognized that my husband had not planned a burglary, and therefore, despite pleading guilty, he was given only 120 hours of community service, and no jail time. Since then he's graduated college and has been in a stable job, never again any trouble with the law. In 2016 I was invited to work at a US institution over the summer months, and my husband applied for a tourist visa to visit me. Due to his criminal conviction this was declined, however later a waiver of ineligibility was approved and he holds a B1 visa now. What do you think? I'm a little scared that he might never get into the US because of this. But the university I am going to is a really highly regarded Ivy at the east coast and it would be crazy for me not to go. Surely they can't make me choose between such an opportunity and leaving my husband behind for 5 years? Thanks for your help.

Hi everyone, I am a European student currently enrolled at a UK institution. I will be applying for graduate school in the U.S. after having spent 3 months as a J1 scholar there last summer. I got engaged last week and I am planning to move with my fiance, we will get married in June. I've already had some of my questions answered by the consulate however a few remain open. 1. How can I make sure that the university will allow me to get a J1 visa instead of a F1? Because if I get F1 my partner will not be able to work at all. 2. My partner has a non-violent, not drug related, criminal conviction. I could not find any information on eligibility for J2 visas in such cases. Does anyone have any experience with J2 visas and criminal conviction, and whether it could get declined? Thanks for any helpful comments!