Working With a Physician NIW Attorney

Clinical physicians in practice — hospitalists, attendings, subspecialists, physicians running their own practices. This is the hardest profile on the three-prong path, because the argument that feels obvious to a doctor is the one USCIS rules out by name: there is a shortage, and I am a physician. What carries is something specific that reaches past your own practice, and our clinical physicians page shows what that looks like.

Physician-scientists and academic-medicine faculty, including people who split the week between clinic and lab. Usually the shortest distance to a filed petition, because the endeavor and its reach past the institution are already sitting in the record. Most of the work is putting each piece of evidence where it belongs. Our physician-scientists page covers it.

International medical graduates who trained here on a J-1. Training leaves a second problem behind the green card: the two-year foreign residence requirement has to be waived under INA 212(e), with all its conditions satisfied, before an adjustment application can be approved, and the J-1 years themselves do not count toward the five-year physician waiver. Our IMG page takes up J-1 waivers and Conrad 30.

A physician consultation is a working session. We ask for your CV, your immigration history including any J-1 time, your licensure and training record, and — if a shortage-area or VA position is in play — the offer, the site, and its designation status.

You leave with four things: which path your situation supports and why, an assessment of the weakest part of the case, the documents that would have to exist before filing, and a flat fee for the scoped work. If the case is not ready, you get that instead.

You work with the attorney making the judgment calls. The path assessment, the framing of the endeavor, and the petition strategy are attorney work here, not an intake questionnaire routed to a template.

Path selection comes before collection. For physicians who fit both routes, we put the time and the commitment each one demands side by side, and you choose with real numbers in front of you.

We quote flat fees after assessing the case, never off a rate card. You know the full fee before the work starts and it does not grow with the hours; government filing fees are paid to USCIS and sit outside it.

We do not promise outcomes. Every petition is decided case by case on the record in front of one officer. What we control is whether your record is the strongest version of the case the facts allow, and whether you knew what it was worth before paying for it.