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B-234667.5 1 (1992-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States Document Control GAO General Accounting Office Room 6536 Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-234667.5 July 8, 1992 Jon W. Van Horne, Esq. McDermott, Will & Emery 1850 K Street, N.W., Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20006 Dear Mr. Van Horne: This concerns your May 3, 1991, submission in which you take issue with several legal conclusions in our February 1990 report: Inappropriate Uses of Educational and Cultural Exchange Visas, GAO\NSIAD-90-61 (J-visa report). You state that the United States Information Agency (USIA) has been relying on these legal conclusions in a manner that prevents, for example, representatives of the newly established Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA) of Eastern Europe from entering the United States under J-visas to train in various YMCA activities. We appreciate your comments and position. Nevertheless, after carefully considering your arguments, we believe the legal conclusions expressed in our report are correct. The J-visa report was prepared under section 555 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1989, Public Law 100-461, 102 Stat. 2268-37, which required the General Accounting Office (GAO) to report on whether participant activities under the J-visa program were consistent with the congressional intent of the J-visa legislation. In your submission you contest GAO's conclusion that certain activities and programs under the J-visa program in the trainee and the international visitor categories,' specifically the summer student travel work and international camp counselor programs, are inconsistent with the intent of the legislation establishing the J-visa. At the outset, we should point out that our conclusions about the programs described were general. Participant activities varied greatly and we could not evaluate each specific program. Your specific comments on the YMCA programs therefore are more appropriately addressed to the USIA than to GAO. 'The international visitor category, which was established by regulation, included the summer student travel/work, international camp counselor and Au Pair programs. FILE r i - u i

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