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The J1 visa is the preferred visa for events that have a fundraising requirement. However, we have been told that they can be very expensive as you have to find a U.S. sponsor. If you are a Summer Work Travel participant (J-1 visa) you may only work in jobs approved by your designated U.S. sponsor. 

There is an “intern” visa under J-1 which requires an intern to have been either currently enrolled in a post-secondary college/university pursuing a foreign degree/certificate outside the US or recently graduated from such an institute within 1 year.  

We also had a participant who had a J1 Visa  (this is was an exchange student visa). With that wanted to attend a Reliant program during the summer months while school was out. They had a J1 Visa and it was confirmed with our lawyer that they would be allowed to support raise for an internship program as an unpaid volunteer intern within the program.

There was also a participant whose J1 Visa was going to expire while she was attending the program so she had to apply for a different visa along the way. But, our immigration lawyers told us that she was allowed to raise support for the program without any problems up until 30 days after the date the J1 VISA expires.  At that point we would need to close the ability for donors to give to her as a solicitor of the event that she was raising support for.