pilotbear > I just heard a rumour that the FI's at Oxford in the USA are not JAA qualified
...just a rumour of course. Wonder if that could disqualify your training?
Better dig deeper
Well, you probably didn't dig deep studying through JAR FCL. Otherwise you'd know that there could be 'JAA' training in non-JAA country by non-JAA instructors as long as the relevant school is allowed/authorised to do so and the instruction is
supervised by JAA instructor. I'm not fluent in the numbers. Check it out yourself.
It was the proposal for EASA FCL that JAA instruction could be only by JAA instructors that upset some schools etc. Or even outside JAA resp EASA soon (not all JAA, naturally). That would peeve off some big FTOs. I think there were rumours here that it'll get probably settled to the content of 'both sides'. But then, I'm not that into memorising it all.