Delays in Foreign Medical Residents’ Visas Causing Headaches

Hospitals and medical centers are scrambling to cope with delays in getting foreign medical residents as a result of the Trump administration’s tightening of visa policies.

Starting this past spring, hospitals that sought H-1B skilled guestworker visas on behalf of medical residents started getting requests for additional information as well as denials from the federal government. The reason had to do with the wage survey data the hospitals were using to prove that they’re paying their foreign residents the prevailing wage.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently appears to have reversed course and started approving the H-1B petitions that were ...