找大使馆吧，如果你国内没有单位，不是中国出钱做得j1，大使馆好像可以直接出具豁免的证明，详情我不清楚，我一个朋友，当年自己联系出来做博士后，因为工资太低不能办h1办了j1，后来办豁免，我听了一耳朵

谢谢mm

奇怪学校里一般是可以办H-1的。

只是NIH，NIST这样的government agency不给foreigh scientist, postdoc fellow办H-1。

How low is it?

Here 20~30K in school as postdoc, you can apply H-1 without any problem.

I know in CA some univ does not sponsor postdoc with H-1, like UCSF. Still there are plenty people applying for it.