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Delays in Visa Program Threaten Placement of Hundreds of Doctors in Underserved Areas

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Delays in Visa Program Threaten Placement of Hundreds of Doctors in Underserved Areas
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Delays in Visa Program Threaten Placement of Hundreds of Doctors in Underserved Areas

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  • KFF Health News·May 1

    Delays in Visa Program Threaten Placement of Hundreds of Doctors in Underserved Areas

    Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and winter, immigration attorneys say. The waiver program, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, allows physicians who aren’t U.S. citizens to stay in the country while transitioning from the visa they used during their training to temporary worker status. In exchange, the doctors agree to work in underserved areas for at least three years. “It will be the patients that suffer the most because in about three months, there’s going to be hundreds of places that are not going to have a physician that should have,” said a psychiatrist caught in the delay. The doctor — whom KFF Health News agreed not to identify because they fear government reprisal — was among hundreds who applied this year for a J-1 visa waiver through the HHS Exchange Visitor Program. If they receive one, the psychiatrist — who attended medical school in their home country in Europe before coming to the U.S. for their residency and fellowship — would work with vulnerable and disadvantaged

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