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sunny123

sunny123

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Hello everyone, if I decided to head off to the Caribbean this upcoming August (I'm Canadian btw), would it be necessary to get the student VISAs for the US done now, for when the rotations start? My dad was saying that one can get a 5-year student VISA, but he wasn't sure baout it. Anyways, thanks for any info.
 
I could be wrong, but isn't getting a clinicals visa as simple as getting it stamped on your passport at the border and getting it renewed at the border when required, should it expire on you?
 
sunny123 said:
Hello everyone, if I decided to head off to the Caribbean this upcoming August (I'm Canadian btw), would it be necessary to get the student VISAs for the US done now, for when the rotations start? My dad was saying that one can get a 5-year student VISA, but he wasn't sure baout it. Anyways, thanks for any info.
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Once you finish in the Caribbean you will either land in the US or Canada on your way home. If you do land in Canada you will eventually return to the US for clinicals. During your time at home, you will get some paperwork from your school which you can take to the US-Canadian border (or airport). You will get the B1 visa which is actually a "visitor" visa, but exceptions exist which allow Canadians to do clinical clerkships on it. They usually renew this every 6 months, so you must plan to return to a border every 6 months (fly or drive) for the duration of your clinical rotations.

If you do land in the US, you will get a 6 month stay "no questions asked". During this time period you can get the paper work from your school, go to a border and they will give you the visa.

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Just be sure your clinicals are greenbook. When I was at the airport getting my B1 visa stamp, they actually went online to check the hospital I was going to was affiliated with a US medical school. He also mentioned he had turned away several student after finding their clinical were not greenbook. Of course if you're clinicals aren't greenbook you may have bigger problems than a visa, such as getting licensed in many states.
 
How do you find out if hospitals are "greenbook"? Is there a main website? I'm looking to go to AUC, and I thought that there weren't any problems with their clinical sites.
 
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