Physicians: Test Your Immigration IQ

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Physicians: Test Your Immigration IQ

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The following online interactive quiz will test your knowledge and sharpen your skills regarding immigration laws and procedures relating to physicians. Before taking the quiz, you may want to review the materials contained in our website concerning physicians. This is an open-book test. If you answer at least seven of the ten questions correctly, we will give you the opportunity to see each of the correct answers followed by a brief explanation. If not, you may reread the materials and retake the test as many times as you wish. Good luck!

A "foreign medical graduate" (FMG or an "international medical graduate" - IMG) is defined by the U.S. immigration laws as a physician who graduated from a medical school which is not located in

The United States
The United States or another English-speaking country
North America
The United States or Canada
An IMG must complete a medical residency in the U.S. and pass certain examinations in order to be licensed in the state of intended employment. Which of the following IMG's are subject to the two-year foreign-residency requirement:

Aliens in exchange visitor ("J") status
Aliens with Employment Authorization Documents issued by INS
Aliens in temporary worker ("H-1B") status
Refugees and Asylees
To obtain H-1B status, an IMG must take and pass all parts of any of the following tests:

VQE, FMGEMS or USMLE
FLEX, NBME or ECFMG
USMLE, NBME or FMGEMS
NBME, FLEX or USMLE
The two-year foreign residency requirement means that certain IMG's who receive graduate medical education and training in the U.S. must

Return to their country of birth for two continuous years
Return to their country of nationality or last residence for two years
Return to their country of nationality or last residence for two continuous years
Return to their country of birth for two years.
An IMG may receive a "waiver" of the two-year foreign-residence requirement by each of these methods except one. Identify the non-qualifying method:

By establishing "exceptional hardship" to certain qualifying family members
By being sponsored by an "interested governmental agency"
By obtaining a "no objection letter" from his home country
By demonstrating that it is likely that he would be "persecuted" if he returned to his home country
The Conrad State 30 Program allows state departments of public health to sponsor IMG's for waivers of the two-year residency requirement. All of the following states sponsor physicians who are specialists except one. Identify the state which sponsors only primary care physicians.

Texas
California
Washington
Georgia
An IMG who receives a J waiver is exempt from the H-1B cap only if she is sponsored by which of the following interested government agencies:

Department of Health and Human Service (HHS)
Veterans Adminstration (VA)
Conrad 30 Program
Delta Regional Authority (DRA)
IMG's who are subject to the two-year foreign-residence requirement, and have not received a waiver, may nevertheless

Obtain an "O-1" (extraordinary ability) visa abroad
Change their status to H-1B (specialty occupation)
Adjust their status to a permanent resident if they marry a U.S. citizen
Obtain an "L-1" (intracompany transferee) visa abroad
Which of the dependent family members of an IMG may apply for employment authorization?

A spouse or child in H-4 status
A spouse or parent in J-2 status
A parent or child in H-4 status
A spouse or child in J-2 status
If an IMG receives a J waiver which does not obligate him to be employed in a medically underserved area for three years, he may obtain permanent residence in which of the following ways?

Through marriage to a U.S. citizen
Through the Diversity Lottery Visa
Through an employment-based petition
All of the above

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