Ineligibility

• Persons holding citizenship or permanent residency in both Nepal and the U.S.
• Scholars who received their doctorate before 2009 and after 2019
• Scholars with less than three years of post-doctoral professional experience in Nepal for post-doctoral researchers; artists with less than five years of experience in Nepal and abroad
• Scholars/artists who have previously held a J visa in the professor or research scholar category are not eligible for sponsorship again in those two categories for a period of 24 months following the program sponsorship end date
• Local employees and their immediate families (i.e. spouses and dependent children) of U.S. missions abroad who work for the U.S. Department of State are ineligible for grants during the period of their employment and for one year following the termination of employment; members and staff of the Nepal Fulbright Commission, for a period ending one year after the termination of such employment