rgnmstr wrote:
I didn't know the INS bothered anybody.

Well, they do.

Go and ask around.

... I know a number of foreign
doctors and I have not once ever heard them mention the INS. Secondly
they all seem to be doing very well. Are the doctors your talking
about citizens?

If they were, the INS would not be an issue. We were talking about legal
immigrants, the kind who can be (and often are) sent home again. Usually
for some silly paperwork oversight, or even an outright mistake by the INS.

... As far as foreign doctors having a tough time getting
licensed I've never heard of such a thing and my wife is in the medical
profession.

Really? That's funny, *every* single foreign doctor I've ever talked to
about the subject (at least 100) has said it's a PITA... some of them
had much worse things to say.

OTOH there is a point to the difficulty... a foreign medical education
is not the same as here. Most other countries do not have the technology
that we currently employ (although that's changing rapidly)

... Doug, are you aware of the scam foreign doctor wannabes
have been pulling for years? The U.S. pays their freight to come to
this country and go to medical school with the understanding when they
are done they will go back to their country and help their people. Big
problem ........... they don't go back.

That's not what I'm talking about

Can you show any documentation of any U.S. or state program that "pays
the freight" of medical school for foreign nationals? I am aware fo some
grants but they are LOANS. In many cases, foreign students are supported
by their own gov't but not ours.

Heck, even the U.S. military does not 'pay the freight' in full for
medical school any more. And that has to be paid back in full plus more,
and not all in cash if you know what I mean.


... If your story is true maybe
things are catching up to them because there is a surplus.

If there is a surplus of doctors, then why are medical costs going up so
much? Why are there fewer and fewer doctors per capita in most areas of
the US, especially in critical specialties... most notably the ones at
the top of the liability list like neurosurgeons and OB-GYNs.

Anyway, ask at your doctors office... how many people know of Canadian,
British, or Australian nurses that used to work over here, and now have
gone back where they came from?

Back in the 1990s it was a problem in engineering that Swedish, German,
Asian, etc etc engineers were all coming over here. Now we have to go
over there. Ditto grad students in various advanced fields.

This is one of those situations where the more you look into it, the
worse it seems.


... I do hear
stories all the time about qualified American kids who can't get into
medical school.


That's because there are about 150 applicants for available spot.

DSK