We recently reported on our Immigration Blog that hospitals and medical centers, facing challenges in staffing during the pandemic, content with heightened struggles to find and hire sufficient numbers of registered...more
As hospitals and medical centers continue to face challenges in staffing during the pandemic, the struggle is heightened to find and hire sufficient numbers of registered professional nurses. In the rural and medically...more
8/18/2021
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Form I-140 Petitions ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
I-485 Applications ,
Nurses ,
Permanent Residence Cards ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Unions ,
USCIS ,
Visas
There are two main paths to Permanent Residency, or green card, for foreign national physicians. The first is the Physician National Interest Waiver (PNIW), created for those physicians who serve five years in primary care...more
5/16/2019
/ Activist ,
Administrative Backlogs ,
Conflicts of Laws ,
Green Cards ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration Procedures ,
India ,
Labor Certifications ,
Lawful Permanent Residents ,
Physician National Interest Waiver (PNIW) ,
Physicians ,
Residency Status ,
Special Immigrant Visas ,
Trump Administration ,
USCIS
The United States health care system is struggling with an acute shortage of doctors. What does that have to do with immigration? The short answer is: Quite a lot. The longer answer leads us to an inescapable conclusion that...more
4/22/2019
/ Conrad 30 Waiver ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Health Care Providers ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration Reform ,
International Medical Graduate (IMG) ,
J-1 Visas ,
Labor Shortage ,
Physicians ,
Rural Areas ,
Rural Health Care Providers ,
Trump Administration
It's March and here we are in the middle of another H-1B cap season. So I did what I do almost every day this time of year: I got up to head in to the office. But first I went for a run to clear my head. It is Saturday. It is...more
4/8/2019
/ Foreign Nationals ,
Foreign Workers ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigration Procedures ,
L-1 Visas ,
O-1 Aliens of Extraordinary Ability ,
OPT ,
Request for Evidence (RFEs) ,
STEM ,
USCIS ,
Visa Caps