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I can hardly find any posts on the SDN or Dentaltown discussing one specific hurdle some international dentists have to jump through after graduating from the advanced programs, ie. looking for a H1B visa-sponsoring dental office or center, if they want to continue their career path in the US.
Here is a quoted paragraph:
Foreign Dentists have a very limited choice. They can onlygo to expensive schools to get credentialed, and also have limited choice onwhere they can work when they graduate. Aspen is a dental mill, they are thegods of cheap dentures in this country. They will pay well, upto $250k a yearat their busiest offices, but you will be seeing 50 patients a day includinghygiene, pretty much EVERY DAY. If a foreign dentist worked at his/her ownoffice at that rate, they would be making 3-4 times more of income than theywould with Aspen. But it takes many years for a foreign dentist to even thinkabout owning an office, as the US Immigration Law requires them to find asponsor for their employment status after they graduate from the 2 yrs trainingprogram, and eventually work toward their permanent residency status(greencard).
The immigration process is the real headache for foreigntrained dentists, debt is the least of their worries, at least the ones I know.Btw, this includes Canadians!
My question is, apart from the ' dental mills', ( which sounded like sweat&blood factories to me, hopefully it's not that bad
), are there any other main venues of workplaces we should look into that is also used to the practice of sponsoring the H1B visas to non-green card international dentists?
I believe this post and the interest it arouses will resonate with a fair number of the audience in the international dentist world. Brothers and sisters, if you happen to know about this subject and would like to share a word or two with us, please kindly advise. Appreciated!
Here is a quoted paragraph:
Foreign Dentists have a very limited choice. They can onlygo to expensive schools to get credentialed, and also have limited choice onwhere they can work when they graduate. Aspen is a dental mill, they are thegods of cheap dentures in this country. They will pay well, upto $250k a yearat their busiest offices, but you will be seeing 50 patients a day includinghygiene, pretty much EVERY DAY. If a foreign dentist worked at his/her ownoffice at that rate, they would be making 3-4 times more of income than theywould with Aspen. But it takes many years for a foreign dentist to even thinkabout owning an office, as the US Immigration Law requires them to find asponsor for their employment status after they graduate from the 2 yrs trainingprogram, and eventually work toward their permanent residency status(greencard).
The immigration process is the real headache for foreigntrained dentists, debt is the least of their worries, at least the ones I know.Btw, this includes Canadians!
My question is, apart from the ' dental mills', ( which sounded like sweat&blood factories to me, hopefully it's not that bad
), are there any other main venues of workplaces we should look into that is also used to the practice of sponsoring the H1B visas to non-green card international dentists? I believe this post and the interest it arouses will resonate with a fair number of the audience in the international dentist world. Brothers and sisters, if you happen to know about this subject and would like to share a word or two with us, please kindly advise. Appreciated!
