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Wages need to go up. Also I think there will be a big push to open up immigration to nurses and doctors over the coming decades

Kind of weird that the usa prioritizes software developers over healthcare workers in the immigration system .

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There has long been an immigration program for foreign doctors to gain the right to live and work in the US in exchange for first living in a rural/poor part of the US where most doctors do not want to live.

If have a nursing degree it's easy to immigrate to USA, in fact you will be coming in with a green card unlike tech worker. So to your point, US does prioritize nurses over others. Doctors are different and it's incredibly difficult for a doctor with a foreign degree to practice in US. I know this for a fact since I come a place where almost every other house has a nurse working in Europe/US

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/gree...

Immigrant doctors have to be willing to live in the least popular parts of the US.

> One reason USCIS may grant the national interest waiver is because a physician agrees to work for a period of time in a designated underserved area.

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