AXIOS June 26, 2024
Longstanding caps on green cards for foreign-educated nurses are limiting one potential fix for America’s stark shortage of health care workers.
Why it matters: As burned-out nurses leave the field, many hospitals and nursing homes have sought to recruit nurses from abroad to help fill vacancies estimated at nearly 200,000 per year.
- But backlogs for visa applications have slowed the pipeline of international nurses, who account for 16% of the country’s nursing workforce.
Driving the news: The State Department this month cut off employment-based visas, known as EB-3, for nurses and other skilled workers through the rest of the fiscal year that ends in September. It enacted a similar freeze last year.
- In most cases, only those...
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