Long Beach CFII,
JAA regulations prohibit any IR training to be conducted outside of JAA airspace, so there are no JAA IR schools in the US
I'm sure this is not true. I can think of a couple of schools which I'm 99% certain offer JAA IR training in the US. However, the Skills Test for the UK JAR IR must be conducted by a CAA examiner, and all of the examiners work in the UK. I'm sure you knew that, though, because your next sentence:
You can complete training in the US, and return for the skills test, as I understand it
implies just that!
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