Medical groups warn Trump of 'imminent healthcare repercussions' due to visa crackdown
Source: thinkprogress
Recent medical graduates have been hit hard by the administration's plan to target H-1B visas.
May 31, 2018, 2:21 pm
International medical graduates are having a difficult time moving to the United States for their residency programs due to a slowdown in the H-1B visa application process, affecting nearly 4,000 individuals, the American College of Physicians wrote in a letter to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials Wednesday..............................................
“When incoming medical residents are delayed or visas are denied, it is not only disruptive to training programs, but it impacts patient care as teaching hospitals rely on these medical residents to provide care,” the organizations wrote. “…For at least one internal medicine training program, 60% of incoming medical residents are on H-1B visas so the impact of a delayed start and possible denials would be devastating to their physician workforce capacity.”
The Trump administration has been quietly targeting the H-1B visa program in recent months, affecting thousands of documented, highly-skilled foreign workers and their spouses hoping to immigrate to the United States. The program was first placed under review in April 2017 after President Trump signed the “Buy American, hire American” executive order, which cracked down on legal immigration in favor of hiring U.S. citizens first...............................
................A delay in H-1B visa processing isn’t the only issue stopping international medical graduates from coming to the United States. In a October 2017 newsletter from the Association for Hospital Medical Education, the president of Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, William W. Pinsky, voiced concerns that future physicians might be deterred from coming to the country due to Trump’s views towards immigrants...........................................
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/international-doctors-suffer-from-trumps-visa-crackdown-580ffa728947/
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