APPENDIX to OI 212.8 [Removed 6/24/97; TM 1] [Moved to the Exchange Visitors Skills List Handbook on INSERTS]

APPENDIX 2 OI 212.8(e) [Removed 6/24/97; TM 1] [Moved to the Exchange Visitors Skills List Handbook on INSERTS]

Appendix 3

OI 212.8

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

SPECIAL IMMIGRATION STATUS FOR

CERTAIN FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES

Enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1981 (Pub.L. 97-116; 95 Stat. 1611) authorizes the grant of special immigrant status to an immigrant (and accompanying spouse and children, if any) who,

(i) Has graduated from a medical school or has qualified to practice medicine in a foreign State.

(ii) Was fully and permanently licensed and was practicing medicine in a State on January 9, 1978.

(iii) Entered the United States as a nonimmigrant with an H-visa or a J-visa before January 10, 1978, and

(iv) Has been continuously present in the United States in the practice or study of medicine since the date of entry.

A Foreign Medical Graduate who meets the above requirements and who is subject to the two year foreign residence requirement of section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, and who entered the United States for education or training on or before January 9, 1977 may obtain a waiver of the requirement in the following manner.

The Foreign Medical Graduate may obtain from his embassy in Washington, D.C. a statement declaring that the government of nationality or in which the Foreign Medical Graduate has permanent legal residence has no objection to waiver of the foreign residency requirement. The Foreign Medical Graduate may then take the statement directly to the District Office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service having jurisdiction over the Graduate's temporary place of residence in the United States. This notice cons titutes the favorable recommendation of the Agency on behalf of all those Foreign Medical Graduates who have obtained a statement of no objection from their respective embassies. The cognizant District Office may issue the waiver and process the required papers for special immigrant status without referring the matter to the United States Information Agency.

Foreign Medical Graduates entering the United States between January 10, 1977 and January 9, 1978, and who meet the requirements for special immigrant status must apply directly to the United States Information Agency for a recommendation if they desire to perfect that status. Each case will be reviewed on an individual basis. All applications must be addressed to:

                Mr. C. Normand Poirier
                Deputy General Counsel
                United States Information Agency
                400 C Street, S.W.
                Washington, D.C. 20547

Published February 24, 1982 (47 FR 8106)