Topic
Physician Immigration
10 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare (Johns Hopkins University Press; Oct 14, 2025).
The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare (Johns Hopkins University Press; Oct 14, 2025).Publisher's abstractFor more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it…
Health Law Blog
Immigration Healthcare Cures for Physicians – A Quixotic Venture?
On February 12, 2022, the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship of the House Committee on the Judiciary held a very informative hearing regarding the relevance of foreign physicians in the…
McEntee Law Group Blog
Immigration: Week In Review
Welcome to our new weekly blog segment Immigration: Week In Review. Each week, we hope to bring you a central news platform for what has been going on in the…
Coronavirus Immigration Blog
Physician Immigration in the News – April 27, 2020
By Greg Siskind
Here is a list of articles on physician immigration since the pandemic began – Immigrant doctors want to help fight the coronavirus. Visa restrictions won’t let them – https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/health-science/immigrant-doctors-want-to-help-fight-the-coronavirus-visa-restrictions-wont-let-them/2020/04/03/77184a05-6bde-4011-b8ab-f89332757a23_video.html …
Coronavirus Immigration Blog
Society of Hospital Medicine Sends Letter to Congress Advocated for Immigrant MDs – April 7, 2020
By Greg Siskind
SHM is the organization that advocates for the nation’s hospitalists. These are doctors with internal medicine training who work in hospital settings. The are very much on the frontline fighting…
Immigration Blog
New Legislation Offered to Extend and Expand Conrad 30 Waiver Program
By Otieno B. Ombok, Forrest G. Read IV
Since at least 2013, there have been efforts to make the Conrad 30 J-1 visa waiver program for physicians permanent. But that has not happened and it continues to be…
Texas Medical Licensing Law Blog
Foreign Medical Graduates and the H-1B Visa: A Better Choice
A foreign physician coming to this country to pursue his residency is often faced with two visa options. He is typically required to choose either a J-1 visa or an…
Immigration Blog
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act Introduced in U.S. Senate
By Otieno B. Ombok, Jackson Lewis P.C.
A bill seeking to make the Conrad State 30 J-1 visa waiver program permanent and improve the pathway for physician immigration to the U.S. with changes to H-1B visas, Green…
ImmigrationProf Blog
9th Circuit Rules in Favor of Doctors in Low Income Neighborhoods
A federal appeals court has overturned government rules that made it harder for immigrant doctors to qualify for permanent legal residence by working in inner cities and other areas where…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Law Review Articles
Connolly, Kathleen A. Comment. In search of the American Dream: an examination of undocumented students, in-state tuition, and the DREAM Act. 55 Cath. U. L. Rev. 193-225 (2005).Cruz, Skyler G.…