stuck in a speciality j1 waiver-need NIW

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para123

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hello everybody,
i started a j1 waiver without knowing what pathway is good(didnt see this website before) and now am doing the pulmonary speciality waiver and the dates have regressed and i am stuck with the usual ji employer and so want to file for the niw, dont know how to do it . so if someone can let me know if that is possible and if it is then how.thanks .
 
only primary care specialties are allowed to apply for NIW.

you might have a shot at NIW under exceptional ability if lots of research papers have been published and have a lot of great reference letters.
 
Draft a business plan for a primary care practice in a HPSA (office space, prelimnary budget, carriers you are going to get on the roster etc). Go to the state dept of health and ask for a 'public interest' letter. Some states are very straightforward on this. Then file your I140. Now you have 2 years to get another I140 through (until they come back to you to ask for the full-time employment evidence). By then, you better have something else cooking, e.g. an approved labor cert based I140. You have to be able to withdraw the NIW or transfer your case over, otherwise you are hosed.
 
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hello hadron,
thanks for the reply,
i do ,do 2 days a wk of primary care,what evidence do i need to furnish to the state that i am doing primary care despite having a pulmonary waiver and would it clash later on, on the paper that i am doing both pulmonary and primary care.
i talked to a lawyer and they told me that as long as my employer is willing to write a letter that i am doing primary care and that state health dept. gives a letter to then i will not have any problem.
do i need anything else in the future or will i encounter any problem in the future( i dont want to get stuck later on and regret that i listened to my lawyer!!!!)
 
Again, I am certainly not the authoritative source, but here are my 5 cents:

As long as the employer and the state are on one page and the state is willing to give you a letter that states: 'we have evaluated dr para123s qualifications and we find that his employment at X-Y practice location is in the public interest', you are golden. All you need is to proove at the 2 and 5 year marks that you are providing medical services full-time at this location.
 
thanks hadron,one thing i wanted to clarify,what exactly would be 'full time medical services',do i have to show full time primary care or pulmonary.or just working as a doctor.
 
You don't have to proove anything, you have to provide a letter that you practiced full-time. Pulmonary is a part of internal medicine, isn't it ?
 
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