---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 62.16"
title: "22"
number: "62.16"
heading: "Employment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/62.16"
---

# §62.16. Employment.

- (a) An exchange visitor may receive compensation from the sponsor or the sponsor's appropriate designee, such as the host organization, when employment activities are part of the exchange visitor's program.
- (b) An exchange visitor who engages in unauthorized employment shall be deemed to be in violation of his or her program status and is subject to termination as a participant in an exchange visitor program.
- (c) The acceptance of employment by the accompanying spouse and dependents of an exchange visitor is governed by Department of Homeland Security regulations.

## Notes

### Amendments

[79 FR 60307, Oct. 6, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(J), 1182, 1184, 1258; 22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 2651a; 22 U.S.C. 6531-6553; Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1977, 42 FR 62461, 3 CFR, 1977 Comp. p. 200; E.O. 12048, 43 FR 13361, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 168; 8 U.S.C. 1372; section 416 of Pub. L. 107-56, 115 Stat. 354 (8 U.S.C. 1372 note); and 8 U.S.C. 1761-1762.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 15196, Mar. 19, 1993, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 64 FR 54539, Oct. 7, 1999.

### Amendments

[79 FR 60307, Oct. 6, 2014]