John Conyers: “I am pleased to have reached a bipartisan agreement to extend the J-1 visa waiver program for another 2-year period.…”

“I am pleased to have reached a bipartisan agreement to extend the J-1 visa waiver program for another 2-year period. This visa waiver program is critically important to bringing essential medical services to residents of underserved rural and urban areas, including my own district in Detroit, Michigan. The J-1 program allows some foreign doctors who have completed their medical training in the United States to remain here to practice medicine for 2 years if they will serve patients in a region of the country that the Federal Government defines as medically underserved. These communities are particularly desperate for physician services because of the growing national shortage of doctors our country is facing. This past summer a Los Angeles Times article detailed the looming crisis in medical care in the United States as the demand for medical service explodes.”