{"id":657,"date":"2012-08-23T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2012-08-23T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:07:53","slug":"physician-j1-waiver-job-while-applicant-is-outside-of-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Physician J1 Waiver Job While Applicant is Outside of the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am a physician intraining Board certified from the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I will be finishing my training in New York city, and will be living in Canada for family reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My 2 years home residency are in my country of last permanent residency which is Lebanon and not Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can I apply for a J1 waiver job through your office despite the fact that my J1 status expired and I didnt fullfill my 2 years home residency? and I am living in Canada and not the USA?\u00a0or the only way to apply for a J1 waiver is if the J1 visa is still valid and I am still physically present in the USA and\u00a0still didnt finish my training in the US??<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Knowing that I finished my internal medicine training and am already Board certified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You do not need to be present in the US to apply for a J1 waiver.\u00a0As long as you obtain a full time job offer to work in an underserved (HPSA\/MUA) area, we can help you.\u00a0Once the waiver is approved, you will need to enter on an H1B visa to begin work for the following three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a physician intraining Board certified from the US. I will be finishing my training in New York city, and will be living in Canada for family reasons. My 2 years home residency are in my country of last permanent residency which is Lebanon and not Canada. Can I apply for a J1 waiver &#8230; <a title=\"Physician J1 Waiver Job While Applicant is Outside of the US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=657\" aria-label=\"Read more about Physician J1 Waiver Job While Applicant is Outside of the US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-interest-waiver","tag-national-interest-waiver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}