Changes to US J-1 Flight Training Visa?
 

For any of you planning to undertake your flight training in the US on a J-1 visa, with the idea of gaining hours as an instructor, the US State Dept. has other ideas:

AOPA Online: Work-study visas for flight students set to end

Of course this will be resisted by AOPA and others.

Just paraphrasing what the AOPA official said. Although making it even less attractive for foreign students to train in the US might not, in AOPAs opinion, be good for US flight schools, US GA, and AOPA membership.