good training at HAI in florida.
Insurance requirements from Pathfinder are 300 hrs to instruct from wich I believe 200 in R-22.
Other insurances still 200 with S-far sign off.
If you meet these requirements, you will find a job quickly.
Look on Justpilots.com for positions.
I got my job on the day I got my 200 hrs and sign off.
Anything less than that and you will have to compeat with hundreds of new cfi's for that one schweizer 300 cb job which has no minimum requirements.
Look into the possibillity of going on a M-1 student visa first, and get your instrument rating, work towards your commercial, and get your J-1 just before your checkride for commercial.
That is where you need the J-1.
The worst that can happen, they subtract your M-1 time from your new J-1.(they didnt with me)
Get your instument instructor as well, will highly increase your chances to get your job.
Most important, as I found out, train at a school with a known and good reputation, and you made it trough the first selection.
HAI, PBH, Hillsboro, Quantum, Sierra, Vortex,
I am sure there are more good schools but knowing what I know now, I would go for one out of the first 3.
What happens afther your instruction time, get another M-1 and do your conversion to european at HAI, or open a buissines in the US and work through that.
You dont need a J-1 or any workvisa to be in the US, you just cant be on any payroll.
You can still bill through your own buissines and leave the country every 3 months.
I know people who do it either through US or Dutch companies, owned by themselves, dependt on the agreement between the 2 countries.
I still have my previous Dutch companie, and this is my backdoor when the time is there
I never so far regretted my decission to go and live my dream for one moment, Just make sure you have all the money available, to train and to built time to meet the requirements, and live and buy a car, and a couple of 1000 more for traveling to interviews, jobhunting, and surviving the first 2 months afther you have a job.
Good luck