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So on the conrad 30 uscis website it states: ALERT: A government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1, 2025. Unless Congress extends the Conrad 30 waiver provision, foreign nationals who are admitted in or acquire J-1 nonimmigrant status on or after Oct. 1 will not be eligible for a waiver of the two-year foreign residence requirement under the Conrad 30 waiver program.

Has the program been renewed and they just haven't updated the website yet?

Any insight would be really helpful, thanks.

Hi i would be grateful if anyone can share good lawyers you worked with for the process of conrad 30 j1 waiver. I understand that the hospital will have there own team but this is for my own due diligence.
Many thanks in advance

Interviewed at an academic program and very interested in joining but had a question regarding the j1 waiver requirements for contract negotiation:

1. 40 hour per week should it be all clinical and active patient care? Currently the role offered is 32 hour clinic and 8 hour academic/research time. So would that work for j1 waiver or do we need all 40 hours in active patient care?

Also i would be extremely grateful to join any group for people applying for conrad 30 waiver for 2026-27 batch.

Thanks in advance

So I am at a point where i have to decide which radiology fellowship to pursue and i am really confused. The only subspeciality i have truely enjoyed is pediatric rad (like i was super excited going to work and it was the only time in a long time that i felt happy on the job), but unfortunately it doesn't pay well from what i have heard. My mentor and everyone i have spoken to have said to do what i like but its not that straight forward. Like i dont want to be making 400-500k when my friends are making 750 or 1 million and money is a huge priority for me. My ultimate goal is to work in private practice and everyone i have spoken to are in academic setting, so i dont know whether they truely get my concern. So i wanted to ask attendings who are in private practice on whether it is possible to make good money in private practice if i am flexible doing basic adult imaging too with peds? Like is it possible or will my job opportunities be significantly limited. Should i just choose neuro or msk (i find them bearable) to make money? I didnt know any better sub to post it on, so i understand that this might be wrong place for this.

I just want to put this out as match season approaches. No matter what happens dont listen to people saying you have no chance to do this or that. Don't listen to anyone saying dont apply to competitive speciality or score is low so don't apply this speciality or yog is "old". If you have a dream, believe it and work hard for it. 7 years ago i came to the states with my girlfriend (now wife) for doing a research year with nothing but a fleeting feeling that i wanted to do radiology and she wanted to do dermatology. A lot of people (almost everyone) said it's impossible, that we are wasting our time, why dont you apply IM. I went unmatched for 1 cycle, my wife for 2 cycles. But after each failure we just went to a rave popped some psychedelics, realized we gave our all this year, made peace with failure and let's go again. The thought was how long can they ignore us for. We just need 1 spot somewhere in this huge land of opportunities. ​Grinded for 2-3 years, always met publishing deadlines, presented at conference with mentors who were super helpful. Got "lucky" and matched the R and D of ROAD. Like no matter what speciality you want to do, you can do it here in the US. Here faculty recognize your hard work, your dedication, your will. So no matter what you want to apply neurosurgery, plastic, ortho, opthal, IM, surgery, cardiothoracic just dont listen to anyone. Anyone with average or above average step score with enough dedication can match into competitive speciality if you do research years and work super hard during those years.

And yeah, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it is making over a million dollars a year combined, working 40 hour a week and renting a villa in ibiza for a month for summer vacation!