Med School + Green card issue

b_r_um
Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:44:42 +0000

I am afraid that you may be out of options: medical school is normally financed either through gigantic loans or from savings+income, which is why there are so few international students at American medical schools. Medical schools are well aware of the financial challenges that international students are facing too: many don’t accept international students at all, and some of the others require that international students pre-pay all 4 years of tuition into an escrow account.



If I had one, that would make things much easier right? How can one get hold of these little precious documents?

You have three options:

1. You marry an American citizen. (Or permanent resident, but then you would be on a decade-long waiting list for a green card.)

2. You win the Green Card Lottery.

3. You get an H-1B and then convince your employer to sponsor you for a Green Card. That would probably take a decade too, two decades if you are from an oversubscribed country like China or India.