In this episode, Dr. Sadaf Sharfaei, and Dr. Nima Zarandi, co-founders of PARSI, talk about their experience in getting US visa. They shared essential tips about different types of visa (J1 Research, J1 Clinical, F1, H1B Visa, and their dependents), 2-Year home residency, and how to apply for the US Green card.

For more information, please refer to the following websites:

* J1 Visa and Conrad 30 Waiver Program* Green Card Through a Physician National Interest Waiver (NIW)* Lawyers directory

P.S. No Objection Statement: Your home country’s government must issue a No Objection Statement. Specifically, its Embassy in Washington, DC must issue the statement. It must state your government has no objection to you not returning to your home country to satisfy the two-year home-country physical presence requirement and no objection to the possibility of you becoming a U.S. lawful permanent resident.The Embassy must send the No Objection Statement to the Waiver Review Division. (Note: The Embassy cannot provide it to you to submit.) Contact the consular section in your home country’s embassy in Washington, DC to make this request.Alternatively, a designated ministry in your home government may issue the No Objection Statement. The ministry would then send it to the U.S. Chief of Mission, Consular Section at the U.S. Embassy within that country. The U.S. Embassy would then forward it directly to the Waiver Review Division.Note: U.S. law does not permit foreign medical physicians who acquired J-1 status on or after January 10, 1977, to receive graduate medical education or training to request waivers under this basis.

Host: Nima Zarandi