drmed wrote:
Hey people. I am an IMG who applied for residency position in the US this year. Well as we all know the results are in february 2007. I am interested in H1B visa cause I already took USMLE step 3. Now, here's the problem. I was on the web page of USA immigration and homeland security and there I read that the limit for this type of visa has been reached in May this year. According to this one should apply for H1B visa one year before actually coming to US for an employment. Now, I don't get this, how can we apply that way when our results are posted every year in february for current year??? So basically, we know 4-5 months before the start of residency if we even been accepted at all. On the other hand, I know that many physicians really do obtain their H1B visas prior to their residency - so how did they managed to do that?

Please if anyone knows anything about this issues I would really appreciate your help.

Thank you all very much.