Applications for a waiver request must be submitted by the employing facility on behalf of a J-1 physician seeking waiver. The employing facility must be located in or serving residents of a shortage area as determined by the Department of Health and designated by the federal government. The facility must have made a bona fide employment offer to a J-1 physician and have submitted a J-1 visa waiver request in the form of an application to the Department of Health.
A J-1 physician possesses a temporary Exchange Visitor (J-1) Visa to pursue a graduate medical education in the United States and is seeking waiver of their J-1 visa home country residency requirement through the practice of medicine full-time within a shortage area. A shortage area is a geographic area that is designated by the federal government as a Medically Underserved Area or Health Professional Shortage Area. Such designation must be in effect at the time of the application.
The J-1 physician must work a minimum 40 hours of medical practice per week, consisting of at least 32 hours seeing patients on an ambulatory or in-patient basis and may include up to 8 hours administrative work for at least 48 weeks per year.
Contact: Halley Lee (1-800-738-2301)