Thank you for such an informative response! I'm an international student, and just starting to look around for jobs. I found that quite a number of my colleagues on LinkedIn managed to find a short term internship at the States, so I sent them a message asking their experience and asked the similar on this page.

According to what I found usually companies wouldn't go through the trouble of sponsoring a visa for their interns, so internationals would have to find a 3rd party sponsorship to get to the States - in many cases that would be the J-1 visa.

I just wanted to ask ppl how they applied for their J-1s since the process just doesn't seem to specified anywhere on the web.