If you e-filed an application or petition and have your receipt number, or filed an application with a USCIS Service Center and have a receipt. Please have your receipt number ready. The service center receipts have three letters and ten numbers.
Read more…

To obtain a J waiver, an “interested government agency” (IGA) must agree to sponsor the IMG to work in a federally designated health professional shortage area or a medically underserved area. There are thousands of these areas throughout the United States.
Read more…

The USCIS (US Citizenship & Immigration Services) offers a helpful web-site for locating their field offices both in the U.S. and abroad. It can can be found at http://uscis.gov/graphics/fieldoffices/index.htm

You may be eligible to apply for a waiver for the foreign residence requirement if: You have a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident spouse or child and you can provide evidence that returning to your country would impose exceptional hardship on your spouse or child.
Read more…

The courts and the US Immigration Service have determined that medical fellowship and residencies qualify as ‘specialty occupations’ (i.e. those occupations requiring at least a four year degree as a minimum requirement for the position).
Read more…

If you fall under the first two categories above, you must file a USCIS Form I-612 (Application for Waiver of the Foreign Residence Requirement) by mail with the USCIS office that serves that area where you live.
Read more…

Yes. However, unless your spouse enters the U.S. on his/her own J-1 visa, they must enter the US as a J-2, dependent of the J-1 Exchange Visitor.
Read more…

Physicians entering the U.S. to provide direct patient care that is not merely incidental to teaching or research must meet the following requirements to be eligible for the H1B:
Read more…

To obtain an H1B visa, the basic list of documents required from you are as follows: Copy of medical school diploma and course list/transcript; Copy of ECFMG certificate;
Read more…

One approach to getting a green card is to go through labor certification. In this process, the employer shows that it has tried but failed to hire a U.S. physician for the position.
Read more…