If the school, district or state already has met the requirements to set up a J-1 exchange teacher visitor program with the Cordell Hull Foundation … a school may apply via our application form on cordell-hull.org or write to the same person with whom you communicated originally to establish the program. The form may be accessed from our home page by clicking on a link.
As explained elsewhere on this website, we do not accept applications directly from teachers, nor do we allow teachers to pay J-1 visa CHF sponsorship fees, contrary to what many people are writing on the Internet or by Chat GPT.
We would advise you to be especially wary of third parties who write about how to apply for a J-1 visa who are citizens of fourth-world countries.
The list changes periodically:
Key Examples (from UN & World Population Review data):
- Africa: South Sudan, Somalia, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia.
- Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Timor-Leste, Yemen.
- Caribbean/Americas: Haiti.
- Pacific: Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, The Philippines.
What “Fourth World” Means:
- Economic Underdevelopment: Nations in which 50% of the population are living below the poverty line.
- Marginalization: Stateless nations excluded from the global economic system, like First Nations in the Americas. Countries who are not fourth-world countries but who border on another fourth-world country.
- Refugees: countries in which the majority of the population is living as refugees.