Conrad 30 Extended for J-1 Waivers 07/14/09
On July 9, 2009, the Senate unanimously passed an amendment which extended the Conrad-30 program for an additional 3-year period.
http://www.senate.gov/galleries/pdcl/index.htm
Under the “Conrad 30″ program, each state health department may submit a request directly to the Department of State (DOS) to initiate the waiver process for a J-1 medical doctor. This request enables J-1 doctors to obtain a waiver of the two-year foreign residence requirement, if DOS submits a favorable recommendation to USCIS and will generally be granted as long as there are no underlying concerns. Once the waiver is granted, J-1 doctors must practice medicine for at least three years in a medically underserved shortage area or areas. The Department of Health and Human Services designates the medical shortage areas.
The Conrad 30 (originally Conrad 20) program was originally established in 1994 to address the shortage of qualified doctors in medically underserved areas, and has been extended several times since then. In 2004, Congress amended the program to exempt J-1 doctors who received a Conrad 30 waiver from the annual H-1B numerical limitation (otherwise known as the “H-1B cap”), as these doctors must complete their required three-year period of service as H-1B nonimmigrants.
For more information about J-1 waivers, please contact the Hammond Law Group.
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Dear Chris,
Is there a possibilty of Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act (H.R. 2536)passing as an ammendment.
Any latest efforts to push the bill?
Please update
Thanks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul
"Obama himself was driving the action, scheduling a Rose Garden statement to reiterate that a bill will get done and focus on the role of nurses in any overhaul'
how do u u analyze this?
friends
Healthcare Reform bill is introduced.Over 40 millionne new people covered the bill.
what about the workforce? who will provide the qulity care for these people…the statistics of healthcare workforce shortage will increase …..if this bill to be a act.
so….good hope….again….always
Pres. Obama just spoke at the Rose Garden A few hours ago.He had representives from the American Nurses Association beside him.He mentioned the nursing shortage which is expected to get worse.
He didn't mention anything on nurse migration.
hai collegues….again +ve improvement…where is danilo..
Move Oh G-d for us… !!!
Dear BLOGGERS,
In reality NO VISA AVAILABLE,
you and i can not change the reality
NO NEW LAW for immigration,
and usa govt busy on various problems,
the best thing to do enjoy life,
we can not do any thing about VISA,
God bless to all.
I like to believe that there is hope but in reality if its ANA in the helms; we just have to be cautious.
ANA has been always and vehemently fight against nurse migration to the United States. There stand is simple, if that nurse is not trained in the US or not an American, she or he is just a second class nurse or no good nurse at all.(sometimes, there is truth to this sentiment, this very true to those nurses, who were able to go tho the US not using the path of the nurse immigration but some other avenues, I witnessed myself a nurse, gave a medication to first time patient, without even asking any questions or did not talk at all to the patient and there are 3 convalescent patients in the room.
But to us Nurses who have to prove ourselves, took at least 3 exams just to be petitioned knows that compassionate, knowledgeable and quite competent skills is just of the many character that we have to have, to be called a 2nd class nurse is not really true) But I suspect that there are other reasons aside from these, one is that; they want the salary of the nurses to be higher than what they are right now, second is; that the members themselves pressure these unions( ANA is a union of nurses only in the bigger and very powerful scale) not to support any migration of nurses to the United States and offcourse; economics, most of all. But I can not elaborate on that yet.( hint: most foreign nurses dont belong to Unions that is aligned with ANA- and if you are a union member, you have to pay a unions dues every month, get the the picture?), well i elaborate it anyway.
let us see, But I suggest that let us analyze at the history and the positions of these organizations.
unless that there will be a drastic and cataclysmic events like what happened in new york in 2008 where in a patient died after waiting for about 10 hours in the emergency and multiply that a million times, there will be no nurse migration to the US as long as Obama and democrats are on the helms in the capitol, simply because that democrats are beholden to the Unions (unless they realize that Chrysler and GM went bankrupt big time because of the unions and that filling the vacancy of the nurses create a multiplier effect to create more jobs as with the studies of many organizations including the ombudsman of the USCIS. And the president can overcome his prejudices and dislikes to foreign nurses.
I like to believe that there is hope but in reality if its ANA in the helms; we just have to be cautious.
ANA has been always and vehemently fight against nurse migration to the United States. There stand is simple, if that nurse is not trained in the US or not an American, she or he is just a second class nurse or no good nurse at all.(sometimes, there is truth to this sentiment, this very true to those nurses, who were able to go tho the US not using the path of the nurse immigration but some other avenues, I witnessed myself a nurse, gave a medication to first time patient, without even asking any questions or did not talk at all to the patient and there are 3 convalescent patients in the room.
But to us Nurses who have to prove ourselves, took at least 3 exams just to be petitioned knows that compassionate, knowledgeable and quite competent skills is just of the many character that we have to have, to be called a 2nd class nurse is not really true) But I suspect that there are other reasons aside from these, one is that; they want the salary of the nurses to be higher than what they are right now, second is; that the members themselves pressure these unions( ANA is a union of nurses only in the bigger and very powerful scale) not to support any migration of nurses to the United States and offcourse; economics, most of all. But I can not elaborate on that yet.( hint: most foreign nurses dont belong to Unions that is aligned with ANA- and if you are a union member, you have to pay a unions dues every month, get the the picture?), well i elaborate it anyway.
let us see, But I suggest that let us analyze at the history and the positions of these organizations.
unless that there will be a drastic and cataclysmic events like what happened in new york in 2008 where in a patient died after waiting for about 10 hours in the emergency and multiply that a million times, there will be no nurse migration to the US as long as Obama and democrats are on the helms in the capitol, simply because that democrats are beholden to the Unions (unless they realize that Chrysler and GM went bankrupt big time because of the unions and that filling the vacancy of the nurses create a multiplier effect to create more jobs as with the studies of many organizations including the ombudsman of the USCIS. And the president can overcome his prejudices and dislikes to foreign nurses.
true ramzenger, so true, but they just have to accept the fact that there is a shortage of nurses in the US and unless they do something about it now, healtcare will become more costly due to possible lawsuits regarding unsafe staffing in healthcare facilities.
whatever you say or do, they will not listen to you. It's better to just wait and see what happens. No more expectations, just go on with life.
To my knowledge, ANA is not against bringing international nurses. Before any bill get passed allowing special visas for Nurse, they want to ensure that there is a bill for better working conditions and increase in wages. For eg. if the nurse-patient ratio gets changed as they want, ANA is well aware that there is no option but bring in additional international nurses. Otherwise, they will need to wait for ten to fiteen years for implementing the nurse-patient ratio.
As long as the chances of bill getting passed, it all depends on political will. It could be either after Health Reform Bill or may be later getting this included in CIR. However, if the CIR gets delayed and delayed, the congress will have no option but to pass hr 2536. Many things are happening behind the doors which HLG may not divulge for strategic reasons.