J visa for canadian PR ?

[docmed]

Hey all,
Does anyone know if a canadian permanent resident starting residency in the US on a J visa, gets the 2 yr. HRR condition? in my previous posts, Hadron had once commented on the option of doing a residency in US on a J visa sponsored by the Health ministry of Canada. i couldn't really get his point, so Hardon if u r reading this post, kindly oblige by further advice on this topic.
thanx.

 

[hadron]

If you enter the US on a J1 visa with the purpose of graduate medical education, you get a home residency requirement, no matter who you are and where you are from. The country you state as 'country of last legal permanent residency or citizenship' in your application (and which gives you the letter of need), determines WHERE you have to go for the 2 years.



Lets say you are originally from india but moved to canada and became a PR (landed immigrant).

You now can:

#1 receive your letter of need from 'health canada' and go to the US for residency on a J1 visa. After your residency is done, you have to return to canada for 2 years before you can go to the US on a work eligible visa (H1b,L1) or green-card.

#2 receive your letter of need from the ministry of health in india and go to the US on a J1 visa. After your residency is done, you have to go to INDIA for 2 years before you can go to the US on a work eligible visa (H1b,L1) or green-card.
(In option #2 there might be a way out. Depending on how you read the immigration law, you might be able to spend the 2 years in cdn if you have become a citizen of canada in the meantime)



Hope this helps.

 

[docmed]

Hadron,
first...thanx for the prompt reply, i appreciate ur advice.
I understand that be it canada or India, if the 2 yr HRR condition is imposed it shall be binding for the respective country of last residence, but what i dont understand is that, what or who decides whether the 2 yr. HRR condition is imposed in the first place itself? Is it decided by the US skills list or is it by default that anyone entering US for a J visa residency program, from any country on this earth, shall be bound by a 2 Yr. HRR.
Kunal

 

[hadron]

As a physician in training, your HRR is independent from the skills list or funding issues. It is just a law congress passed in 1997 after lobbying by the american medical association in order to reduce the influx of funny looking doctors into the US medical system. So yes, everybody, regardless of the country he comes from incurs an HRR if he enters the US for graduate medical education on a J1.