J-1 trainees get sponsored by a third party exchange organization, not the company they will be interning at. Typically you (as the host company) and the candid

J-1 trainees get sponsored by a third party exchange organization, not the company they will be interning at. Typically you (as the host company) and the candidate work with the exchange organization to complete the paperwork to get the visa. When I did my J-1 internship back in 2001, I used CIEE, which was pretty painless and straightforward: https://www.ciee.org/intern/ https://www.ciee.org/intern/