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Group (7). Fields in the Study and
Practice of Education:
7A. Teaching and Religious Education
7B. Educational Testing, Evaluation
and Measurement
7C. Primary School Teaching
(including, but not limited to Nursery
Schools and Kindergartens)
7D. Secondary School Teaching
(including, but not limited to Remedial
Teaching and Teaching of English as a
Foreign Language)
7E. Vocational and Technical School
Teaching
7F. College and University Teaching
in Natural Sciences, Mathematics,
Engineering and Technology (except
Agriculture)
7G. College and University Teaching
of Social Sciences, Liberal Arts and
Literature (including Foreign Language
Education)
7H. College and University Teaching
of Education
7I. College and University Teaching of
Business
7J. Agricultural School Teaching
7K. Education of the Physically
Handicapped (including Education of
the Mentally Retarded and Emotionally
Disturbed)
7L. Education of Exceptional Children
7M. Physical Education and
Recreation (including, but not limited to
Coaching)
7N. Teaching in Medical Schools
(including, but not limited to lecturers)
7O. Teaching in Law Schools
(including, but not limited to lecturers)
7P. Career Guidance and Counseling
7Q. Camp Counselor
7R. Educational Technology
(Instructional Systems Technology)
7S. Educational Psychology
7T. Curriculum Planning
Group (8). Fields in Communication,
Transport and Construction Professions
and Skills:
8A. Journalism (including, but not
limited to editors and reporters, and
including text-book writers, interpreters
and translators)
8B. Communication Media (including
Television and Film)
8C. Electrical Communication
Technology
8D. Radio Operation
8E. Airplane Piloting (including, but
not limited to Airline Piloting)
8F. Merchant Marine
8G. Architecture (including Marine
Architecture)
8H. Construction (including but not
limited to builders, but not including
skilled and unskilled laborers)
8I. Construction-Project Management
8J. Drafting
8K. Skilled Operation of Construction
Machines
8L. Telecommunications
Group (9). Fields in Business:
9A. Industrial and Business
Administration and Management
(including, but not limited to:
programmers and Project Evaluation,
Business, Total Quality Management)
9B. International Business and
Commerce
9C. Industrial Organization
9D. Labor and Industrial Relations
9E. Economic Development and
Planning (including Rural Development)
9F. Economic Information Analysis
(including, but not limited to
Management Studies)
9G. Accounting
9H. Cybernetic Technology
9I. Statistics
9J. Insurance (including Actuaries)
9K. Administration of Financial
Institutions (including, but not limited
to Savings and Loan Organizations and
Credit Unions)
9L. Financial Planning
9M. Operations Research
9N. Banking
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9O. Farm Management and
Administration
9P. Hotel and Motel Management
9R. Marketing
9S. Finance
Group (10). Fields of Library Science:
10A. Library Science (including, but
not limited to Electronic Data Storage
and Retrieval)
UNITED STATES INFORMATION
AGENCY
Revised Exchange-Visitor Skills List
SUMMARY: The Exchange-Visitor Skills
List which follows incorporates all
previous revisions and amendments still
in effect, and has been developed after
consultation with foreign governments.
DATES: In order to provide time for the
dissemination of this list to Foreign
Service posts abroad and to interested
persons and organizations in the United
States, the following Exchange-Visitor
Skills List shall become effective March
17, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stanley S. Colvin or William G.
Ohlhausen, Assistant General Counsels,
United States Information Agency, Suite
700, 301–4th Street, SW., Washington,
DC 20547. Telephone 202–619–6829.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to the provisions of section 212(e) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, as
amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(e), and 22 CFR
41.65(b), The Secretary of State
designated on April 25, 1972, and
revised on February 10, 1978, a list of
fields of specialized knowledge or skills
(referred to as the Exchange-Visitor
Skills List) and those countries which
clearly required the services of persons
engaged in one or more of such fields.
Any alien who was a national or
resident of one of those countries and
obtained an exchange-visitor visa and/or
became a participant in an Exchange-
Visitor Program involving a designated
field of specialized knowledge or skill
after the effective date of those public
notices was subject to the two-year
foreign residence (home-country
physical presence) requirement of
section 212(e) of said Immigration and
Nationality Act as provided by said
section and 22 CFR 41.65(b).
Pursuant to the provisions of
Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1977,
section 217 of the United States
Information Agency Authorization Act
of August 24, 1982 (Pub.L. 97–241) and
Executive Orders Nos. 12038 of March
27, 1978 and 12388 of October 14, 1982,
the Director, United States Information
Agency, further revised the 1972
Exchange-Visitor Skills List on:
September 30, 1986; February 5, 1987;
March 19, 1987; April 1, 1987;
December 16, 1988 and on July 28,
1993.
Exchange visitors who entered the
country prior to said effective date shall
continue to be governed by the 1972
Exchange-Visitor Skills List, as
amended. The Skills Lists have been
developed after consultation with
foreign governments, USIA area offices,
USIS posts abroad, and with the
assistance of foreign services officers
assigned to USIA’s Office of the General
Counsel, Waiver Branch, Exchange
Visitor Program Services.
Dated: January 7, 1997.
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