{"id":88858,"date":"2026-05-08T08:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88858"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:56:56","slug":"us-lifts-hold-on-immigration-applications-for-doctors-but-leaves-others-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/us-lifts-hold-on-immigration-applications-for-doctors-but-leaves-others-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"US lifts hold on immigration applications for doctors, but leaves others waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/823289e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7824x5216+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F49%2F01%2Ff59c893b23e6cc3f1003e7c16ca0%2F1b70111027b049e2866786bc7c54ecd4\" alt=\"Dr. Zahra Shokri Varniab poses for a photo Friday, May 1, 2026, in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn\u2019t been able to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-trump-visas-pause-doctors-iran-128fed537a91e2cc714d9ed9c7672a6b\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn\u2019t been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Donald-Trump.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88859,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88858\/revisions\/88859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}