美国带薪实习项目简介

    带薪实习项目为世界各地的18-28岁在校大学生提供在美国工作和旅游的机会从而使其他国家的大学生能够深度的了解美国文化。每一位申请者都拥有独一无二的机会去深度了解美国，而且同时也可以和其他的国际学生一样成为自己本民族文化在美国的传播使者。在暑假期间世界各地的申请者有机会在美国短期工作，带薪实习项目的设计意义在于利用暑假期间为国际学生提供融入美国本地生活的机会从而增加国际间的交流。申请者允许在美期间得到相应的工作回报，为在美期间的生活、旅游提供经济支持。在实习期结束之后，学生可以在全美旅游，体验不同的地区的文化差异，深度探索美国各个地区。一个永远难忘的暑假正在等待你，你可以在工作、旅游的同时享受在美国的生活，感受美国的文化… …

    该项目已经在欧洲、美洲、亚洲其他国家和地区成功运作了40余年，每年都有数万名来自世界各地的大学生利用暑假，持J-1签证进入美国企业进行为期8-16周的短期实习。项目于2007年上半年被引入中国大陆，目前已经有近千位来自中国大陆的学生成功获得在美国实习的工作岗位，并已经顺利完成实习返回国内。

美国法律背景介绍：
Summer Work & Travel Program 美国国务院法案

The Exchange Visitor Program is carried out pursuant to the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as amended. The Act promotes mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through educational and cultural exchanges.

Sponsors and exchange visitors are required to comply with the Exchange Visitor Program regulations. For a successful Program, it is essential to become familiar with the governing regulations. This home page and the pages it links should be viewed as a resource; they are not intended as a replacement or substitution for the Exchange Visitor Program regulations, 22 CFR Part 62.

Summer Work/Travel

Regulations pertaining specifically to the Summer Work/Travel category are found at [22 CFR 62.32].

Through this category foreign post-secondary students may enter the United States to work and travel for a maximum of four months during their summer vacations. While most participants enter the United States with prearranged employment, sponsors are required to place only 50 percent of their participants each year. Sponsors must ensure that participants entering the United States without prearranged employment have sufficient financial resources to support themselves during their search for employment. In addition, sponsors must provide such participants with information on how to seek employment and secure lodging in the United States before they depart their home countries, and with a job directory that includes at least as many job listings as the number of participants in their program who are entering the United States without prearranged employment. Finally, sponsors must undertake reasonable efforts to secure suitable employment for participants unable to find jobs on their own after one week.

Sponsors are to advise program participants about Federal Minimum Wage requirements, and are to ensure that participants receive the same pay and benefits as received by their American counterparts in the same or similar positions.

Program regulations permit participants to repeat the program more than once. However, sponsors are required to limit the number of repeating participants to no more than 10 percent of the number of their previous year's participants.

Department regulations prohibit the placement of program participants as domestic help in U.S. households or in positions requiring them to invest their own money for inventory, such as door-to-door sales. Most participants typically work in non-skilled service positions at resorts, hotels, restaurants, and amusement parks. Summer internships in US businesses and other organizations (i.e., architecture, science research, graphic art/publishing and other media communication, advertising, computer software and electronics, and legal offices, etc.) are allowed. However, the term of the internship may not exceed the four-month program duration, and must be completed during the student's summer vacation. Please refer to the regulations for details.