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Las Vegas Paper Reports of Abuse of J-1 Waiver Physicians in Nevada

According to a series of stories in the Las Vegas Sun, Nevada employers are abusing physicians who are participating in the J-1 Visa Waiver Program. The Sun interviewed 25 physicians who participated in the program, 7 of whom are still working through the program. The doctors interviewed were in Nevada , Tennessee , Utah and Arizona .

The physicians told the Sun that employers have been pulling J-1 waiver physicians out of the rural clinics where they have been assigned to work under the terms of their contracts, and placed in Las Vegas ’s larger hospitals where they will generate more revenues. The Sun contends that the foreign physicians have not complained about this for fear of losing their jobs.

In addition to violating the work site terms of the contract, the Sun also reported that employers are required to work extremely long hours, and that parts of their contracts have been altered without their knowledge.

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