Lest anyone think the residency situation is dire or that there aren’t residency position for IMGs…
In 2024 Match, nearly 39,000 positions were offered. (Does not include residencies that are part of the military Match, nor ophthalmology or urology which hold their own individual specialty matches.)
Of those 39,000 available positions, more than 9000 were filled by non-US IMGs. 217 residency programs did not fill all their allotted positions. Family medicine alone had 1237 unfilled positions after SOAP in 2024.
Data available here: Match Data - Residency Match & SOAP Outcomes | NRMP