Waiver of the Two-Year Home Country Physical Presence Requirement for Certain Foreign Medical Graduates

• Document number: 97-9831
• Type: Final Rule
• Published: April 16, 1997
• Effective: April 16, 1997
• Agency: Justice Department; Immigration and Naturalization Service

Official abstract

This final rule amends the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) regulations relating to waivers of the 2-year home country residence and physical presence requirement (2-year requirement) pursuant to a request by a State Department of Public Health, or its equivalent. These waivers are intended to ease health care shortages by allowing certain foreign medical graduates (FMGs) to work at health care facilities located in geographic areas designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) as having a shortage of health care professionals (HHS-designated shortage areas).

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