Does anyone know of paid research opportunities for internationals? (J-1/H1B). If a research position can fund my stay in the U.S. I would try and get observerships alongside to strengthen my residency application. Is this really impossible without contacts?
clinical research jobs that will sponsor H1B
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Impossible? No.
Extraordinarily unlikely (with the likelihood asymptotically approaching zero)? Yes.
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Realistically, you would need someone to vouch for you, and a skill set that is applicable to the lab you are joining. We have post-doctoral fellows on visas in our lab, but they're pretty extensively vetted and they all bring something productive to the table. We love to train and teach and help get FMGs to their next step, which is often residency, but we aren't running a charity. Research money is not easy to come by, and funding a fellow even at $45,000 a year costs more like $65,000 with fringe and institutional overhead, and I could fund a faculty co-investigator for 3 months of effort for that kind of money. It's a help me/help you situation. I get at least 5 form letter-style emails with attached CVs every week from people looking for positions, coming from all over the world. I delete them all, because it isn't that hard to find people that have already been evaluated by PIs I know and trust.
The trick for you will be getting your foot in the door, doing potentially unpaid work for someone until you've proven your worth, and then parlay that into a lab talk and a letter of reference with someone who has money to hire.
The trick for you will be getting your foot in the door, doing potentially unpaid work for someone until you've proven your worth, and then parlay that into a lab talk and a letter of reference with someone who has money to hire.
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If your lucky in a few years the US might pass immigration reform which would probably open up immigration in the US.
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As an international in the US for 10 years on visas and finally getting my H1b, wouldn't hold my breath on US immigration reform anytime soon with the state that Congress is in right now! :/
10 years? Curious- Are you a U.S.-MD who did their MD on an F-1?
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I did my undergrad, 1 year of master's, and medical school all on the F-1 visa and intern year of residency on OPT. Finally just got sponsored for the H1b visa, and even then it was hard to find a residency program that would sponsor it.
